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Reads tagged with “psychology”

Srikumar Rao on Hard-Wiring Happiness
Srikumar Rao on Hard-Wiring Happiness

Why success and failure are exactly the same, or how process supersedes perfection.

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Highlights from TED 2010, Day One
Highlights from TED 2010, Day One

What one pound of tuna has to do with five years of chocolate milk, spider silk and a ukulele.

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The Red Book: When Carl Jung Lost and Found His Soul
The Red Book: When Carl Jung Lost and Found His Soul

Psychotherapy as theater, or interpreting the imagery of one of history’s most famous interpreters.

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FaceSense: Mind-reading from MIT
FaceSense: Mind-reading from MIT

70’s-style mind-reading for the digital age, or why we all say one thing and mean another.

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Music Meets Philosophy: The Happiness Project
Music Meets Philosophy: The Happiness Project

Neighborly wisdom, music innovation, and the extraordinariness of ordinary human speech.

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Beyond the Dunbar Number: Picking Dunbar’s Brain
Beyond the Dunbar Number: Picking Dunbar’s Brain

Kinship vs. friendship, the cognitive demands of monogamy, or why 400 Facebook friends may be a health hazard.

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Live Now: In-the-Moment Inspiration
Live Now: In-the-Moment Inspiration

A true exercise in art therapy, or what all motivational posters should aspire to be.

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Chart Wars: The Steering Power of Data Visualization
Chart Wars: The Steering Power of Data Visualization

Data-washing, why designers are not to be messed with, and how seeing really is believing.

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The Happiness Project: Gretchen Rubin Spends a Year in Pursuit
The Happiness Project: Gretchen Rubin Spends a Year in Pursuit

A year’s worth of ideas, inspiration and innovation from culture’s collective brain.

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The Pink and Blue Projects: Exploring the Genderization of Color
The Pink and Blue Projects: Exploring the Genderization of Color

How political correctness resulted in enforcing a universal, cross-cultural gender stereotype.

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