psychology

76 posts

1. The Story of Your Life September 1, 2015
2. Unless You Are Spock, Irrelevant Things Matter in Economic Behavior July 12, 2015
3. That’s what’s so frightening March 3, 2015
4. How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life February 20, 2015
5. Grief is as unique as a fingerprint January 13, 2015
6. Why people cling to their hates so stubbornly November 7, 2014
7. Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life September 28, 2014
8. When people say, “I’m the kind of person who,” my heart always sinks July 27, 2014
9. Will the Real Introverts Please Stand Up? | Scientific American June 14, 2014
10. The Last Word On Nothing | Guest Post: The Art (& Science) of Lefty Portraits June 2, 2014
11. Philip Seymour Hoffman: The End of Quitting February 22, 2014
12. He who travels to get somewhat which he does not carry December 16, 2013
13. Hilary Mantel reviews ‘Tormented Hope’ by Brian Dillon · LRB 5 November 2009 July 1, 2013
14. There’s no need for you to “decide” on one feeling June 21, 2013
15. Jealousy lives upon doubt May 21, 2013
16. Hyperbole and a Half: Depression Part Two May 10, 2013
17. Savvy advertising is always trying to tell you something about yourself May 5, 2013
18. Take the hard feelings away, and this is the right thing to do April 7, 2013
19. Our unlived lives are often more important than our lived ones February 28, 2013
20. 46 Reasons My Three Year Old Might be Freaking Out February 27, 2013
21. Feeling-Making Machine: An Interview with Mary Karr - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e Spring 2010 January 24, 2013
22. Advice for Boys – The Bygone Bureau January 24, 2013
23. Our neuroses rush into everything we invent January 19, 2013
24. Hyperbole and a Half: Adventures in Depression August 23, 2012
25. The Medication Generation: Teenagers and Antidepressants - WSJ.com July 2, 2012
26. Which old sayings are true and which are false? - Barking up the wrong tree June 17, 2012
27. Shame: A Durkheimian Take – The New Inquiry April 1, 2012
28. “Have you tried suffering?” March 9, 2012
29. The Decline and Fall of Parental Authority | AlterNet February 27, 2012
30. Denial about how invested you are in a single outcome January 7, 2012
31. A Different Take on Empathy | RyanHoliday.net January 6, 2012
32. Magical Thinking - Psychology Today December 11, 2011
33. The New Inquiry - Consider the Humblebrag November 9, 2011
34. More and more, a psychiatrist is approached today by patients who confront him… October 20, 2011
35. Misinformation in TV Drama Gains Credibility Over Time - Miller-McCune October 14, 2011
36. Thus ever from himself doth each man flee September 9, 2011
37. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia August 22, 2011
38. The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? by Marcia Angell | The New York Review of Books July 4, 2011
39. Envy works upon what is close at hand, and things that are far off we are more… June 24, 2011
40. You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you… May 12, 2011
41. BPS Research Digest: The books and journal articles all psychologists should read May 10, 2011
42. Regrets of the Typical American March 28, 2011
43. To find out who “you” are, focus not on your intentions but on how… January 6, 2011
44. Terror management theory - Wikipedia November 27, 2010
45. Balanced Arguments Are More Persuasive — PsyBlog November 8, 2010
46. Emotive conjugation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia October 15, 2010
47. Escalation « Cheap Talk October 15, 2010
48. Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? - Magazine - The Atlantic September 20, 2010
49. Forer effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia September 16, 2010
50. Scientists identify moves that make men irresistible on the dancefloor September 10, 2010
51. The war on unhappiness: Goodbye Freud, hello positive thinking - By Gary Greenberg (Harper's Magazine) August 23, 2010
52. Why Elite Shoppers Eschew Logos August 11, 2010
53. Psychoanalysis is about what two people can say to each other if they agree… August 10, 2010
54. The Tyranny of Things by Edward Sandford Martin - The Oxford Book of American Essays July 16, 2010
55. The Happiness Hypothesis (review: 5/5) July 13, 2010
56. Stendhal’s depiction of “crystallization” in the process of falling in love July 10, 2010
57. What's the relationship between money, ambition, and happiness? - Barking up the wrong tree June 28, 2010
58. The best vacation ever - The Boston Globe June 23, 2010
59. How do you talk yourself into something? | Psychology Today May 12, 2010
60. Why Do Harvard Kids Head to Wall Street? « The Baseline Scenario May 11, 2010
61. The Trustworthiness of Beards - Percolator - The Chronicle of Higher Education April 23, 2010
62. Music = dye February 16, 2010
63. Sexual Politics of Dancing: The Secrets of Looking Good on the Dance Floor January 23, 2010
64. The relative relativity of material and experiential purchases January 9, 2010
65. What is good music? December 28, 2009
66. As a former(-ish) introvert, I think most of this is pretty spot-on September 15, 2009
67. Edge: What makes people vote Republican? August 25, 2009
68. The hollow mask illusion July 15, 2009
69. Marshmallows and time preference June 3, 2009
70. How the city hurts your brain January 12, 2009
71. New York Times article about boredom August 7, 2008
72. Why we love a good yarn August 5, 2008
73. It Is Upsetting to Conclude That Someone Is “Simply a Bastard” June 1, 2008
74. Against Happiness (review: 2.5/5) April 28, 2008
75. If Osama is only 6 degrees away, why can't we find him? February 6, 2008
76. The Tipping Point (review: 2/5) August 23, 2006