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Reads tagged with “psychology”

The Exultant Ark: The Secret Emotional Lives of Animals
The Exultant Ark: The Secret Emotional Lives of Animals

What dolphins at play have to do the mating rituals of butterflies and our capacity for kindness.

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Iron Fists: A Design History of Totalitarian Regimes
Iron Fists: A Design History of Totalitarian Regimes

What Mao’s poetry and Mussolini’s pulp fiction have to do with crimes against humanity.

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Arthur Conan Doyle, Psychic: Rare Footage from 1930
Arthur Conan Doyle, Psychic: Rare Footage from 1930

What the world’s most analytical detective has to do with exploring the fringes of spiritual life.

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Words To Live By: 5 Timeless Commencement Addresses
Words To Live By: 5 Timeless Commencement Addresses

Gifts vs. choices, the benefits of failure, and what calligraphy has to do with Apple’s success.

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Dear Me: Letters by Luminaries to Their 16-Year-Old Selves
Dear Me: Letters by Luminaries to Their 16-Year-Old Selves

What the renouncement of dieting has to do with love and buying shares in Google.

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Renata Salecl: How Limitless Choice Limits Social Change
Renata Salecl: How Limitless Choice Limits Social Change

Why having more options makes us more critical of ourselves and more politically passive.

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Sentimental Value: Shopping for Human Stories on eBay
Sentimental Value: Shopping for Human Stories on eBay

What social psychology has to do with Victorian romance and the official White House gift wrapper.

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(Almost) Everything You Need to Know about Culture in 10 Books
(Almost) Everything You Need to Know about Culture in 10 Books

What the limits of the universe have to do with the history of jazz and the secret of happiness.

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5 Must-Read Books by TED Global 2011 Speakers
5 Must-Read Books by TED Global 2011 Speakers

What the pursuit of pleasure has to do with lie-detection, the history of money and the sorrows of work.

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thxthxthx: The Art of Finding Happiness in Everyday Gratitude
thxthxthx: The Art of Finding Happiness in Everyday Gratitude

What laundry and bee stings have to do with the secret of happiness.

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