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Psychology Today
Healthy Food, Montessori, and CrossFit Are for the Rich6 min read · 2021-11-08 · An evolutionary take on social inequality.
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The Atlantic
What Collective Narcissism Does to Society7 min read · 2021-11-06 · In everyday settings, it can keep people from listening to one another. At its worst, it might fuel violence.
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You can’t force everyone to see the value in your group, just as you can’t force everyone to see the value in you as an individual. But you can control how you see yourself, and the narrative you tell yourself about your group and the world
The Atlantic
The New Question Haunting Adoption9 min read · 2021-10-19 · At a glance, America's shortage of adoptable babies may seem like a problem. But is adoption meant to provide babies for families, or families for babies?
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Vox
The past, present, and future of body image in America~17 min read · 2021-10-18 · Millennials grew up hating their bodies. Does Gen Z have to be the same?
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Psychology Today
Of 15,000 Reasons to Stay in Relationships, Only Two Matter5 min read · 2021-09-28 · New research shows how decisions to stay or leave boil down to two main reasons.
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People are either together (and intend to be) or they’re not (and don’t intend to be). However, another factor to consider, as Machia and Ogolsky point out, is that the reasons people stay may not be the opposite of the reasons they leave.
Fast Company
How to make new friends as an adult3 min read · 2021-09-14 · These three strategies can help if you’re looking to make new and meaningful connections.
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Harvard Business Review
The Future of Flexibility at Work~18 min read · 2021-09-29 · You can tailor programs and policies to fit your employees’ needs.
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Every job deserves some flexibility. It cannot be viewed as a scarce or privileged resource.
Aeon+Psyche
Argue better by signalling your receptiveness with these words8 min read · 2021-10-04 · All too often disagreements spiral into conflict. Prevent that happening by signalling your receptiveness with these words
Reader View · Shared by 381, including Esther Schindler, Carly, David Gates, Jason Silva, Mark Kaigwa
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Similar to eating sugary food or staying up late, the thrill of speaking your mind is immediate, but the long-term costs to the relationship are obscured
Guardian US
Cultivate curiosity, and really listen: how to persuade people whose politics you don’t agree with9 min read · 2021-10-01 · The left wants to achieve far-reaching structural change – the sort of political reframing that requires coalition building. Are polarizing words throwing them off course?
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relationships
psychology
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The New York Times
Opinion | In Real Life, Not All Interruptions Are Rude6 min read · 2021-09-26 · Sometimes people talk over each other and it totally works.
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The Guardian
It’s shocking to see so many leftwingers lured to the far right by conspiracy theories3 min read · 2021-09-22 · It’s not just anti-vaxxers. The themes of resisting power and regaining control of our lives have been cynically repurposed, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Parties that once belonged on the left talk about security and stability while those on the right talk of liberation and revolt.
Psychology Today
Friends Turn Into Lovers More Often Than People Think4 min read · 2021-08-17 · How individuals start a relationship is an often overlooked area of research.
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Only 18 percent of people reported they intentionally became friends with their now-partner due to romantic attraction.
BBC Future
The reasons humans started kissing1 min read · 2021-08-16 · Lip-on-lip kissing is not nearly as universal as we might think it is. The diversity of ways that humans kiss might reveal what it is that we find important.
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UnHerd
Life is one big status game7 min read · 2021-09-02 · The battle to be virtuous inspires endless political cruelty
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But it is also a status game, the aim being to “seek the maximal removal” of their opponent’s status: “ideally, reputational death.”
The New York Times
Opinion | One Thing We Can Agree on Is That We’re Becoming a Different Country10 min read · 2021-09-08 · Tolerance and intolerance are taking on many different guises.
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Their goal is to create some kind of cascade, informational or reputational, by which the concept moves in their preferred direction.
The Economist
Why nations that fail women fail4 min read · 2021-09-09 · And why foreign policy should pay more heed to half of humanity | Leaders
Shared by 73, including Matthew Bishop, Azeem Azhar, David Ndii, Carly, Tiffany Shlain, Stowe Boyd, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Brooks Rainwater
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