Psychology
Psychology
Psychology stories — what makes people tick, what childhood patterns shape adulthood, how high-functioning minds navigate the world. Part of our Mind & Meaning editorial section.
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If you feel that the world is becoming less intelligent in some way, the data from Norway, Denmark, Finland, France, Britain, and Australia agrees with you, with average IQ scores in those countries falling continuously since the mid-1990s by an estimated five to seven points per generation.
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Thought by Carl Sagan: "All of human history happened on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
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When Gloria Mark started tracking computer screens in 2004, people lingered about 2.5 minutes before switching, but two decades later, the average had collapsed to roughly 47 seconds
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There is a documented psychological shift, first described by astronauts who saw the Earth from space, called the overview effect — in which seeing the planet as a single fragile sphere with no visible borders causes a profound and often permanent change in worldview, leaving many astronauts unable to think about human conflict the same way again.
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Scientists studying centenarians — people who live past 100 — have found that they don't age much more slowly than the rest of us for most of their lives, but they appear to delay the diseases that kill most other people by an average of 15 to 20 years, in a quiet pattern that suggests longevity may have less to do with slow aging and more to do with avoiding the conditions that cause it
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Life slowly becomes whatever we give our attention to, whether we notice that choice or not
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Meta's smart glasses companion app was downloaded more than 50 million times before anyone disclosed that it already contained three AI models capable of detecting a face, generating a biometric fingerprint, and firing a notification that read 'Person Recognized'
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Scientists spent years arguing that only a quantum computer could decode nitrogenase, the enzyme that makes most of life on Earth's nitrogen available — a classical computer at Caltech solved the key problem first
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Nobody talks about how one bad moment can color a whole good day. The mind grips the negative more tightly than the positive — an ancient survival setting, handy for spotting danger, less so for living well
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In 1972, New Zealand researchers began following more than a thousand babies born in a single coastal city, intending to study how childhood shapes adult life — and more than five decades later, the single childhood trait that most consistently predicts adult health, wealth, and happiness is not intelligence or family income, but something much harder to teach
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Baboons walk in single file not for safety or strategy but simply to stay close to their friends — and researchers say the pattern it produces serves no purpose at all
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Quote by George Carlin: "Don't just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything."
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A study of adults aged 62 to 92 found that basic motor control — drawing lines, placing dots — remains almost identical between people with and without cognitive impairment, meaning the hands stay capable long after the processes that organise thought have started to change
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I've been studying emotion regulation for 6 years, and I think the most practical skill you can learn is to notice your nervous system before your mind starts writing tragic fiction.
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