Entries tagged "psychology"

March 21, 2021 My Highly Unexpected Heterosexual Pandemic Zoom Wedding Laurie Penny The singled-out quotations are mine. We were in the middle of promising to grow old together when the sound cut out. The officiant’s March 3, 2021 Useful Delusions by Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler (review) This is inspired by a book review in the WSJ 2021-03-03 by Matthew Hutson. I found it through my public library February 23, 2021 Should models look at the camera? An article appeared in the 2021-02-23 edition of our WSJ with the title, Should Models in Ads Look Directly at The Camera? Research Has an Answer: A February 9, 2021 Rescripting Facts This article finally gave me a word to describe why it’s so hard, at least for me, to argue about politics with smart people who I disagree with: September 28, 2016 The neurology of self-awareness | Hacker News Source From Hacker News, so it’s a mess. A very interesting and thought-provoking essay. This part in particular stuck out: Otherwise monkeys would September 28, 2016 THE NEUROLOGY OF SELF-AWARENESS | Edge.org Source What is the self? How does the activity of neurons give rise to the sense of being a conscious human being? Even this most ancient of