Reads tagged with “psychology”
What George Eliot Teaches Us About the Life-Cycle of Happiness and the Science of Why We’re Happier When We’re Older
“One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.”
The Science and Philosophy of Friendship: Lessons from Aristotle on the Art of Connection
“Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.”
“Tip-of-the-Tongue Syndrome,” Transactive Memory, and How the Internet Is Making Us Smarter
“A public library keeps no intentional secrets about its mechanisms; a search engine keeps many.”
How Antidepressants Affect Selfhood, Teenage Sexuality, and Our Quest for Personal Identity
“Though antidepressants are effective at managing negative emotions, they don’t in themselves provide the sense of meaning and direction that a person equally needs in order to find her way in life.”
How to Build a Universe: Philip K. Dick on Reality, Media Manipulation, and Human Heroism
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
Milton Glaser on Art, Technology, and the Secret of Life
“You learn more and more that everything exists at once with its opposite, so the contradictions of life are never-ending and somehow the mediation between these opposites is the game of life.”
Aesthetic Consumerism and the Violence of Photography: What Susan Sontag Teaches Us about Visual Culture and the Social Web
“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted.”
David Foster Wallace on Writing, Death, and Redemption
“You don’t have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness … has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I’m going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.”
How to Do the “Step-and-Slide”: A Cognitive Scientist on the Rules of Avoidance, Alignment, and Attraction for Deft Urban Walking
The intricate art of the pedestrian jig, essential for maintaining personal space in a public place.
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