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Great Vacation? Don’t Brag to Your Friends
The New York Times: Your friends don’t want to hear about your excellent adventures. While you may have gotten great pleasure from an epic event — sipping a rare wine in Burgundy, watching a Himalayan
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Just Looking at Cash Makes People Selfish and Less Social
The Atlantic: When it comes to money, people aren’t pursuing stacks of green paper or a collection of copper disks—they’re interested in what those objects represent. The pull of money, the economy and most behavioral
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There’s a surprisingly strong link between climate change and violence
The Washington Post: Earlier this year, when a study came out suggesting global warming will increase the rates of violent crimes in the United States — producing “an additional 22,ooo murders, 180,000 cases of rape,” and many other crime increases
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Amazing, once-in-a-lifetime experiences make us social misfits
The Boston Globe: As anyone who has signed on to Facebook recently can see, social media takes the propensity for sharing extraordinary experiences to the maximum. A Facebook feed can read like a list of
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Geteilter Schmerz verbindet sogar Wildfremde (Shared pain even connects strangers)
Die Welt: Geteilter Schmerz, so unangenehm er auch sein mag, kann positive soziale Folgen haben. Das berichten Brock Bastian und seine Kollegen von der University of New South Wales in dem Fachmagazin in “Psychological Science”. Geteilter Schmerz
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Extraordinary Experiences Are Socially Isolating (So Next Time, Take a Friend)
Big Think: Think twice before motorbiking across India or seeking out other extraordinary experiences, say a team of Ph.D. students studying the effects of great experience on conversation. Having a much more interesting time with