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Human Psychology
Someone cuts you off in traffic and you immediately form a judgment about what kind of person they are. Then, a few minutes later, you cut someone else off…
Human Behaviour
Suppose you donate to a charity in the morning. In the afternoon, you face a decision that involves some ethical dimension — helping a colleague, being h…
Human Behaviour
In 1964, a woman named Kitty Genovese was attacked outside her apartment in New York City. Newspaper reports at the time claimed that 38 witnesses watched…
Human Psychology
In the 1960s, Martin Seligman and Steven Maier were conducting experiments with dogs, running standard classical conditioning procedures involving mild ele…
Human Psychology
You show up to a meeting with a stain on your shirt and spend the next hour acutely aware of it, certain that everyone in the room has noticed and is priva…
Human Behaviour
You probably do not think of yourself as particularly preoccupied with status. Most people do not, which is part of how status anxiety does its work so eff…
Human Psychology
Almost everyone who procrastinates believes, on some level, that the problem is laziness. That belief is wrong, and it makes procrastination worse. When yo…
Human Stupidity
There is a version of yourself you carry around in your head that is more consistent, more principled, and more logical than the version that actually move…
Human Behaviour
In 1961, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram ran a series of experiments that changed how we understand human nature. His question was simple and urgent: how…
Human Behaviour
In the 1950s, psychologist Solomon Asch ran a set of experiments so simple they almost seem like a joke. He gathered participants in a room and showed them…
Human Psychology
Delroy Paulhus and Kevin Williams coined the term dark triad in 2002 to describe three personality traits that share a core of callousness, manipulation, a…
Human Stupidity
After a plane crash receives weeks of saturation news coverage, airline ticket sales drop significantly. After a shark attack makes the front page, beach a…
Human Behaviour
Bella DePaulo and her colleagues asked college students and community members to keep a diary of all their social interactions and to record any lies they…
Human Psychology
Cognitive dissonance is among the most important ideas in twentieth-century psychology, and it is widely misunderstood. Most people think it just means hol…
Human Psychology
Before you answer the next question, spin an imaginary wheel of fortune. It stops on 65. Now: what percentage of African countries are members of the Unite…
Tourism
Ramadan in Dubai is one of the most interesting times to visit — the city slows in the day and then comes spectacularly alive after dark. During the holy…