Articles (page 10)

  • Prime Time Never Died, It Started Charging Admission

    The free version of mass simultaneous attention declined. The mechanism was made scarce on purpose and sold back

  • Willpower Is Not a Fuel Tank

    The resource theory of self-control shrank to almost nothing, and the belief theory brought in to replace it does not replicate either

  • Wanting Is Not Liking

    Engagement measures wanting more readily than it measures liking, and the two are not the same system

  • The Invisible Weight of Belonging

    Exclusion has one of the largest effect sizes in social psychology. The literature that recommends connection has never priced the membership

  • Why You Cannot Stop Scrolling

    A slot machine holds no model of you. A feed holds nothing else. The argument is that the second one builds the first by accident

  • The Courage Problem

    The founding story of the bystander effect does not survive its own archive, and people intervene in nine out of ten real fights

  • Your Nostalgia Is Lying to You

    The benefits of nostalgia are well measured. So is the inaccuracy of the memories producing them. Nobody has run the two literatures against each other