279 | Ellen Langer on Mindfulness and the Body
For those of us who are not dualists, the mind arises from our physical bodies — mostly the brain, but […]
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239 | Brian Lowery on the Social Self
There is an image, especially in Western cultures, of the rugged, authentic, self-made individual choosing how to navigate the intricacies
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227 | Molly Crockett on the Psychology of Morality
Most of us strive to be good, moral people. When we are doing that striving, what is happening in our
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225 | Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency
Human beings have developed wondrous capacities to take in information about the world, mull it over, think about a suite
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223 | Tania Lombrozo on What Explanations Are
There are few human impulses more primal than the desire for explanations. We have expectations concerning what happens, and when
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221 | Adam Bulley on How Mental Time Travel Makes Us Human
One of the most powerful of all human capacities is the ability to imagine ourselves in hypothetical situations at different
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194 | Frans de Waal on Culture and Gender in Primates
Photo: Robin Lubbock/WBUR Humans are related to all other species here on Earth, but some are closer relatives than others.
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180 | Camilla Pang on Instructions for Being Human
Being a human is tricky. There are any number of unwritten rules and social cues that we have to learn
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176 | Joshua Greene on Morality, Psychology, and Trolley Problems
We all know you can’t derive “ought” from “is.” But it’s equally clear that “is” — how the world actual
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165 | Kathryn Paige Harden on Genetics, Luck, and Fairness
It’s pretty clear that our genes affect, though they don’t completely determine, who we grow up to be; children’s physical
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