How Corporations Created ‘Cool’
byA philosopher / neuroscientist and a political scientist, wrote a book on how we as a consumer follow up the superficial trends that corporations make for…
Psychology
We All judge Ourselves Too Harshly
byIt’s easy to feel like we aren’t good enough. We all judge ourselves too harshly, and reflect on our failures too critically. In an…
The Reliability of Memory
byI teach a course on personal identity, and one of the authors we read is John Locke, the 17th-century English philosopher who tells us…
Positive Thinking is Negative
byWhy doesn’t positive thinking work the way you might assume? As my colleagues and I have discovered, dreaming about the future calms you down,…
Kindness Improves Your Physical Attractiveness
byOne of the most robust findings in social psychology is the beauty-is-good stereotype: physically attractive people are perceived and treated more positively than physically…
Why Some people Are Always Miserable
byIn her article, The 14 Habits of Highly Miserable People, Family Therapist Cloe Madanes, gives us a road-map to misery, and successful self sabotage,…