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When Kate was growing up, her grandfather often told her that when he was serving on a Navy ship during ...

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There are two parts of the mind: the conscious and the unconscious. While the former dominates your ...

As long as humans have existed, we've had to choose between our lower and higher desires — between what ...

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The ancient Greeks and Romans thought a lot about what it means to live a virtuous life. They believed ...

In one of the emails Oliver Burkeman, author of Time Management for Mortals, sent out to his subscribers, ...

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When you were a kid, teachers and parents probably told you to concentrate. And as an adult, you likely ...

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Whenever you get into an argument, whether you're discussing politics with a colleague or the distribution ...

In a classic experiment conducted by the psychologist Solomon Asch, participants were placed in a group, ...

When you look back on the moments you regret most in your life, a fair number of them likely involved you ...

Every time you turn around, you see decisions being made by individuals and institutions that seem ...

During World War II, Henry Beecher, an anesthesiologist serving in the U.S. Army, noticed that 32% of the ...

Welcome back to our occasional, ongoing series exploring the nature of envy.  In the previous ...