Insider Business
Here's The Startling Degree To Which Your Parents Determine Your Success
2 min · · Your future income is directly affected by how much your parents make, if they're married, and where they decide to live. · Shared by 6, including Josep M. Ganyet
eastermichael.medium.com
Why Creativity Is Tanking
· Research going back to the 1950s explains why we’re now facing a “creativity crisis” · Shared by 5, including Josep M. Ganyet
GEN
The Lifespan of a Lie
20+ min · · The most famous psychology study of all time was a sham. Why can’t we escape the Stanford Prison Experiment? · Shared by 17, including Josep M. Ganyet, Rick Powell
architectureanddesign.com.au
Exercise Equals a Free Ride in this Romanian City
· The Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca has reintroduced its smart sports bus station, which gives city residents the ability to ride the bus for free if they complete 20 squats in two minutes. · Shared by 6, including Josep M. Ganyet
The New York Times
The Meaning and History of Memes
5 min · · Internet culture is saturated with memes, but how would you explain a meme to someone who doesn’t get it? · Shared by 20, including Josep M. Ganyet
Aeon+Psyche
Horse-human cooperation is a neurobiological miracle
11+ min · · The horse is a prey animal, the human a predator. Our shared trust and athleticism is a neurobiological miracle · Shared by 259, including Josep M. Ganyet, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos
Aeon+Psyche
Can music give you an orgasm? The short answer is yes
14+ min · · A song can take you on a journey of ecstatic arousal. Is music imitating sex, inviting it, or something else altogether? · Shared by 173, including Muhammed Öztürk, Jason Silva, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Josep M. Ganyet, Neil Hart 💙
The New Yorker
It’s Time to Stop Talking About “Generations”
6 min · · From boomers to zoomers, the concept gets social history all wrong. · Shared by 217, including Zoe Scaman, Mathew Ingram, Ed West, Josep M. Ganyet, Bob Sutton, Susan Krauss Whitbourne PhD, ABPP, Felix M
POLITICOEurope
Have we reached peak stupidity?
4 min · · The only cure for our epidemic of idiocy is admitting our ignorance. · Shared by 18, including Josep M. Ganyet, Barry C Smith
The Atlantic
What Makes Us Happy?
· Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age. Here, for the first time, a journalist gains access to the archive of one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies in history. Its contents, as much literature as science, offer profound in · Shared by 18, including Christopher Allen, Josep M. Ganyet
The New York Times
I Spent a Year in Space, and I Have Tips on Isolation to Share
6 min · · Take it from someone who couldn’t: Go outside. · Shared by 155, including Howard Getson, Micki & Charles, Sunnie J. Groeneveld, Henneke Duistermaat, Mark Kaigwa, Ben Fry, Gretchen Rubin, Carla Gentry 🎶, Christian Hernandez, Jana Eggers, Paulo Coelho, Jen Simmons, ANTHONY IANNARINO 🇺🇸, Dan Rockwell, Steve Case, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Monica Burns #EdTech #Education, Jenny Halasz, Tamara McCleary, Susannah Fox
adn.com
The cognitive biases that make coronavirus seem scarier than it is
4 min · · When we worry too much - or too little - about something, we can actually introduce new threats. · Shared by 6, including Josep M. Ganyet
niskanencenter.org
Op-Ed: Portrait of a Fuhrer
9 min · · In the midst of World War II, the U.S. government commissioned a psychological profile of Adolf Hitler. The results may have something to teach us about destructive charismatic personalities today. · Shared by 18, including Howard Getson, Josep M. Ganyet
nature
Cooperation and the evolution of hunter-gatherer storytelling
20+ min · · Storytelling entails costs in terms of time and effort, yet it is a ubiquitous feature of human society. Here, Smith et al. show benefits of storytelling in Agta hunter-gatherer communities, as… · Shared by 8, including Josep M. Ganyet
nysun.com
Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone
3 min · · I left my 9-year-old at Bloomingdale's (the original one) a couple weeks ago. Last seen, he was in first floor handbags as I sashayed out the door. Bye-bye! Have fun! And he did. He came home on the… · Shared by 11, including Lenore Skenazy, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Josep M. Ganyet
Visual Capitalist
50 Cognitive Biases in the Modern World
17+ min · · Our rapidly evolving world forces us to adopt distinct patterns of behavior, and in the process, paves the way for new cognitive biases to emerge. · Shared by 2478, including Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, Kirk Borne, Andy Budd, Stef Walter, George J Huba PhD, Casey Smith, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, LARRY ELKAN, Helen Yu, Stu Collett, Klaus Eck, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, AI, Warren Whitlock, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Andreas Staub, Jennifer Ouellette, Terence Mills, Andrew Spence, ClearAction / Lynn Hunsaker, CCXP