Articles (page 37)
- The Candle Never Changes
Why the room decides what counts as art
- 2,500 Years, One Good Study
Buddhism locates suffering in craving, not in thinking. A laboratory in Michigan may have found that craving does not have to hurt
- Cliques Are a Stress Response
Why groups close ranks when the environment gets hard, and why the exclusion is the mechanism rather than the malfunction
- 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