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The Psychology Of Nakedness
The human mind sees minds everywhere. Show us a collection of bouncing balls and we hallucinate agency; a glance at ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
With great graphs comes great responsibility
Want to convince someone of something? Show them a graph. At least, that’s what political scientists Brendan ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Mass Psychosis in the US
Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
The Optimism Bias
We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures. We watch our backs, weigh the odds, pack an umbrella. But both ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?
Prior to treatment, patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, depression, and other psychiatric disorders do not ...Posted by Walter Cox
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Police: Iraq War Veteran Suspected Of Killing Park Ranger Found Dead
A plane searching the remote wilderness for Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24, on Monday discovered his body lying ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Stockbrokers More Competitive, Willing To Take Risks Than Psychopaths
Various studies have suggested that a certain kind of psychological profile gravitates toward the fast-paced, ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Debt Ceiling Holy War: Why Do Conservatives Have Unshakable Faith in Ideas That Are Totally, Demonstrably False? | | AlterNet
The Republican Party is holding the U.S. economy hostage. While the American people overwhelmingly support a ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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The Rise of the New Groupthink
Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
The New York Times Discovers It’s Virtually Impossible To Keep Weight Off
With New Year’s and its attendant resolutions just around the corner, articles about weight loss are cropping up ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
The Limits of Magical Thinking
Steve Jobs, the mad perfectionist, even perfected his stare. He wanted it to be hypnotic. He wanted the other ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
The Republicans are now the anti-science party
Jon Huntsman Jr, a former Utah governor and ambassador to China, isn't a serious contender for the Republican ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
What Happened to Obama?
The president is fond of referring to “the arc of history,” paraphrasing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King ...Posted by Subramanya Sastry
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Fact-checking in the Echo Chamber Nation
At a Republican campaign rally a few years ago, I asked one of the attendees how he got his news. "I listen to Rush ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
How to stop the political insanity
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Why Do They Do It?
Why do politicians persist in peddling exaggerations, twisted facts and outright falsehoods? Here's a theory from a ...Posted by Fabrice Florin
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