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Ideas

Thought-provoking articles about human nature from diverse thinkers

What the distinctive brains of resilient people can teach us | Psyche

Mind and brain

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What the distinctive brains of resilient people can teach us

by Laura Moreno-López

Only by taking leave of our senses can we plunge into reverie | Psyche

Altered states

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Only by taking leave of our senses can we plunge into reverie

by Rachel Genn

To be a responsible citizen today, it is not enough to be reasonable | Psyche

Values and beliefs

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To be a responsible citizen today, it is not enough to be reasonable

by Francisco Mejia Uribe

The self

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Sudden amnesia showed me the self is a convenient fiction

by Steven Hales

Existential psychotherapy helped my students cope with chaos | Psyche

Humanistic and existential therapy

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Existential psychotherapy helped my students cope with chaos

by Ronald Chau

Love’s contradictions: Catullus on the agony of infatuation | Psyche

Poetry

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Love’s contradictions: Catullus on the agony of infatuation

by Armand D’Angour

The media bias against antidepressants is harming patients | Psyche

Pharmaceuticals

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The media bias against antidepressants is harming patients

by Anushka Pathak & Lizzie Lim

What the new science of narcissism says about narcissists | Psyche

Personality disorders

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What the new science of narcissism says about narcissists

by W Keith Campbell & Carolyn Crist

Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking | Psyche

Thinking and intelligence

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Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking

by Nana Ariel

Why are there so few children’s books set in the suburbs? | Psyche

Stories and literature

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Why are there so few children’s books set in the suburbs?

by Philip Reed

Immersive art opens a window on the mystery of other minds | Psyche

Altered states

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Immersive art opens a window on the mystery of other minds

by Joe Barnby

Working, flirting and sex: courtship in 18th-century France | Psyche

Love and relationships

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Working, flirting and sex: courtship in 18th-century France

by Julie Hardwick