How Our Contradictions Make Us Human and Inspire Creativity
The fissures created in our experiences between our principles and actions can be a source of profound creativity and reflection. Nicolas Nova/Flickr This article was originally published…
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How Our Contradictions Make Us Human and Inspire Creativity
The fissures created in our experiences between our principles and actions can be a source of profound creativity and reflection. Nicolas Nova/Flickr This article was originally published…
Understanding The Social Capital of Fake News
Why has fake news persisted? We’ve built the world to enhance our automatic assumption of the “right” action. Online social networks have been primed to reflect these assumptions…
Understanding The Social Capital of Fake News
Why has fake news persisted? We’ve built the world to enhance our automatic assumption of the “right” action. Online social networks have been primed to reflect these assumptions…
Understanding The Social Capital of Fake News
Why has fake news persisted? We’ve built the world to enhance our automatic assumption of the “right” action. Online social networks have been primed to reflect these assumptions…
The Long Count
Time. Astronomers, philosophers, physicists, anthropologists, politicians, geographers, and theologians have all pondered the nature and meaning of time. Is it linear or cyclical? Is it reversible? (P…
The Night I Was Attacked by a Ghost
Our dreams—and the ways we interpret them—are strongly influenced by the culture in which we are raised. But both can change when we travel to different places, such…
How Twin Culture Challenges Our Notions of Self
Sameness is often seen as the defining characteristic of identical twins, but this impression is a result of Western stereotypes about the meaning of selfhood. Lisa Wiltse/Getty Images…
What does choice look like in today’s world?
We live in the age of information, so why do we still make bad decisions? Or worse, no decisions? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
What does choice look like in today’s world?
We live in the age of information, so why do we still make bad decisions? Or worse, no decisions? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Why Is the “Tears of Joy” Emoji Everywhere?
Although it doesn’t quite seem that we’re ready to chat in all emojis and only emojis, they are serving to modify our responses and add meaning in an…
Why is the “Tears of Joy” emoji everywhere?
While it doesn’t quite seem that we’re ready to chat in all emojis and only emojis, they are serving to modify our responses and add meaning in an…
Using attachment theory to understand Facebook stalking
Social media has made digital voyeurism the norm, but some of us are more inclined to pursue online surveillance than others — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
What do those temporary Facebook profile pictures really mean?
We know that online peer pressure is powerful. But what we don’t know is whether that pressure is driving real change. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Common Brain Mechanisms in Mental Illness
An important new meta-analysis of brain imaging research came out this week in JAMA Psychiatry, “Identification of a Common Neurobiological Substrate for Mental Illness” which highlights t…
Oppression, Mental Health, and the House Science Committee
By Steven Folmar, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Anthropology, Wake Forest University On September 15 of this year, I learned from my Program Officer at the N…