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The Ultimate Learning Machines

By Alison Gopnik — 2019

The future of artificial intelligence depends on designing computers that can think and explore as resourcefully as babies do.

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Why We’re Sometimes Kind Without Reason

Our brains are constantly, subtly being primed in fascinating ways by our physical surroundings.

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Charles Montgomery
2013
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What Loneliness Does to the Human Body

The bodies of lonely people are markedly different from the bodies of non-lonely people.

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Ashley Fetters
2018
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The 9 Major Research Areas in Social Psychology

Here are just a few of the major areas of interest within social psychology.

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Kendra Cherry
2020
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How Scammers Like Anna Delvey and the Tinder Swindler Exploit a Core Feature of Human Nature

Research shows that people tend to default to trusting others over distrusting them, believing them over doubting them and going along with someone’s self-presentation rather than embarrassing them by calling them out.

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Vanessa Bohns
2022
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What Our Negative Comments and Consumer Gripes on Social Media Reveal about Us

To figure out why people complain so much on social media, we analysed negative posts on Facebook about brands caught up in media controversies at the time.

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Angela R. Dobele, Ashleigh Powell
2022
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By Mollycoddling Our Children, We’re Fueling Mental Illness In Teenagers

Of course we want to keep children safe. But exposure to normal stresses and strains is vital for their future wellbeing.

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Jonathan Haidt, Pamela Paresky
2019
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The Dark Psychology of Social Networks

Why it feels like everything is going haywire? Even if social media could be cured of its outrage-enhancing effects, it would still raise problems for the stability of democracy.

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Jonathan Haidt,Tobias Rose-Stockwell
2019
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Laughter Releases ‘Feel Good Hormones’ to Promote Social Bonding

Even in the hardest of times, laughter has a steadfast ability to bring people together. A new study reveals how laughter affects the brain, which may help to explain why having a giggle plays such an important role in social bonding.

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Honor Whiteman
2017
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A Psychotherapist Goes to Therapy—and Gets a Taste of Her Own Medicine

Even psychotherapists sometimes need therapists themselves. My guest Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who realized she needed to talk to a therapist when the man she expected to marry unexpectedly broke up with her.

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Terri Gross
2019
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Facing Our Dark Side: Some Forms of Self-Compassion Are Harder Than Others

Compassion is one of those warm, fuzzy words referring to qualities that often seems in short supply in the ever-accelerating rough and tumble of daily life today.

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Richard Schwartz
2020
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