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Ideas

Thought-provoking articles about human nature from diverse thinkers

Our evolved intuitions about privacy aren’t made for this era | Psyche

Human evolution

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Our evolved intuitions about privacy aren’t made for this era

by Joe Green & Azim Shariff

Lost perspective? Try this linguistic trick to reset your view | Psyche

Thinking and intelligence

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Lost perspective? Try this linguistic trick to reset your view

by Ariana Orvell

Party-crashing was a serious business in medieval Arabic tales | Psyche

Stories and literature

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Party-crashing was a serious business in medieval Arabic tales

by Emily Selove

Hope is the antidote to helplessness. Here’s how to cultivate it | Psyche

Emotion regulation

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Hope is the antidote to helplessness. Here’s how to cultivate it

by Emily Esfahani Smith

It’s possible to help more positive images pop into your mind | Psyche

Memory and nostalgia

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It’s possible to help more positive images pop into your mind

by Simon Blackwell

Speaking Latin brings an unmediated thrill to the Classics | Psyche

Learning and education

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Speaking Latin brings an unmediated thrill to the Classics

by Armand D’Angour

Meditation is like mountaineering: approach it with care | Psyche

Mindfulness and meditation

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Meditation is like mountaineering: approach it with care

by Nicholas Van Dam

The ‘melancholic joy’ of living in our brutal, beautiful world | Psyche

Difficult emotions

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The ‘melancholic joy’ of living in our brutal, beautiful world

by Brian Treanor

So far and no further: the philosophy of Samuel Pepys | Psyche

Stories and literature

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So far and no further: the philosophy of Samuel Pepys

by Jacky Colliss Harvey

The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence | Psyche

Nature

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The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence

by Nicholas P Money

What do you really want when you want to get your revenge? | Psyche

Violence and aggression

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What do you really want when you want to get your revenge?

by Renée Danziger

Poetry

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The meaning of cowardly dogs and other puzzles of Arabic poetry

by Lara Harb