The human costs of faulty disaster warnings.
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Psychology
This text is not about Baby Reindeer, Netflix’s latest hit. It’s about one of the most perverse dimensions of sanism and anti-madness: the exploitation of madness as an edifying aesthetic resource. It is also about the obsolescence of narratives centered on the uncritical perspective of the traditional agent of the banality of evil, the mediocre […]
Time to extinguish the slacker cliche.
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The researcher delving into the downsides of psychedelic drugs.
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For some, a night without sleep causes mood-boosting changes in the brain.
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When a misplaced sense of familiarity gives rise to delusions of place.
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A tendency to reframe negative events may be embedded in our neurobiology.
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New evidence for the curative effects of dance.
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A simple game shows how fear of regret shapes decisions.
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AI humor in theory and practice.
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