Psychology
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The New York Times
I Spent a Year in Space, and I Have Tips on Isolation to Share
The New York Times
6 min read · 154 saves · 2020-03-21 · Take it from someone who couldn’t: Go outside.
adn.com
The cognitive biases that make coronavirus seem scarier than it is
adn.com
4 min read · 2020-03-04 · When we worry too much - or too little - about something, we can actually introduce new threats.
niskanencenter.org
Op-Ed: Portrait of a Fuhrer
niskanencenter.org
9 min read · 17 saves · 2020-02-28 · 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.
Nature
Cooperation and the evolution of hunter-gatherer storytelling
Nature
20+ min read · 2020-02-19 · 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…
nysun.com
Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone
nysun.com
3 min read · 11 saves · 2020-01-07 · 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…
Visual Capitalist
50 Cognitive Biases in the Modern World
Visual Capitalist
~17 min read · 1668 saves · 2020-02-01 · 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.
HuffPost
20 Ways To Be A Happier Person In 2020, According To Therapists
HuffPost
~11 min read · 307 saves · 2020-01-01 · If you're going to make a resolution for the new year, it may as well be improving your mental health.
nobbot.com
Cómo los libros y la televisión afectan a tu cerebro de manera diferente
nobbot.com
4 min read · 2020-01-28 · Varios estudios demuestran que leer libros nos aporta muchos beneficios que, en cambio, la televisión no nos puede ofrecer.
Lex Fridman
Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI
Lex Fridman
1 min read · 224 saves · 2020-01-15 · Daniel Kahneman is winner of the Nobel Prize in economics for his integration of economic science with the psychology of human behavior, judgment and decision-making. He is the author of the popular…
annieduke.com
"No, judges don't give harsher sentences when they are hungry"— Annie’s Newsletter, October 5, 2018
annieduke.com
6 min read · 2020-01-12 · NO, JUDGES DON’T GIVE HARSHER SENTENCES WHEN THEY ARE HUNGRY How a sexy narrative can make us forget that correlation does not equal causation Ego depletion is the hypothesis that willpower and self…
catorze.cat
Per què la gent incompetent es pensa que és boníssima?
catorze.cat
2 min read · 2020-01-10 · L'educador David Dunning diu que «sovint sobrevalorem les nostres habilitats»
twitter.com
Brian Roemmele on Twitter
twitter.com
8 min read · 2020-01-05 · “Consider: millions of years ago our antecedents gave a massive sacrifice of their left hemisphere. We lost a tremendous amount of short term memory and replaced it with Broca’s, Wernicke & the…
MIT Technology Review
Why the rise of the app has put thousands of people in the hospital
MIT Technology Review
1 min read · 18 saves · 2019-12-05 · People are being distracted by apps on their phones, and getting injured as a result.
UX Planet
Behavioral Economics: Understanding Human Irrationality
UX Planet
~12 min read · 109 saves · 2019-10-24 · And how it influences user decisions
MIT Technology Review
Google’s health-care mega-project will track 10,000 Americans
MIT Technology Review
7 min read · 11 saves · From 2017 · The project will scrutinize spit, tears, stool, heartbeats, and genomes to search for new predictors of disease.
MIT Technology Review
Screen time might be physically changing kids’ brains
MIT Technology Review
2 min read · 19 saves · 2019-11-04 · A study published today in JAMA Pediatrics warns that kids’ literacy and language skills suffer with screen use, and MRI scans of their brains appear to back up the findings.The study: Forty-seven 3-…
