Dishonesty gets easier on the brain the more you do it
If we engage in lying over and over again, does our emotional response to this adapt?
How the fear of death makes some people more right-wing
If massively destructive terror attacks continue, terror management theory predicts that societies will grow exponentially more chaotic and divided. source: Elvert Barnes/Flickr A string of terror attacks across the globe have shaken the world’s most powerful nations to their core. [...]
Why you shouldn’t want to always be happy
Recognizing that happiness exists – and that it’s a delightful visitor that never overstays its welcome – may help us appreciate it more when it arrives. Frank T. McAndrew, Knox College In the 1990s, a psychologist named Martin Seligman led [...]