Articles Tagged with #psychology
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Dispatches
How the Other Half Shares
When the media talks about social media, it’s always about young, white Americans. We spoke to a wider sample—including a sex worker, a pastor’s wife, a rapper—to see why people do what they do online.
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Personal Histories
The Low Road
Not everyone who breaks your heart is a monster. And not everyone who wounds you deserves to be wounded in return.
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Phenomena Understood
Our Dino Love Will Never Die
Dinosaurs haven’t been super-popular for 65 million years—it only feels that way. Fans and experts explain our obsession with dead monsters.
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Guides
Ars Erotica
What one woman labels kinky, another person calls a crime against cake. Offering a taxonomy of erotic fixations.
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Gallery
Playground
Inspired by memories of his own childhood in the UK—part joy, part Lord of the Flies—a photographer studies playgrounds around the world.
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Gallery
The Ghost Army
Art from World War II’s masters of deception—including the likes of Bill Blass, Ellsworth Kelly, Art Kane—who served in a top-secret unit that fought the enemy with trickery.
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Gallery
Get Out of Jail Free
The bachelorette party can seem like a crude, commercial ritual. But at its core are emotional ties that bind.
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Realpolitiking
When a Country Is Not a Country
In the last 25 years, more than two dozen new countries have been recognized by the international community. But secession isn’t easy, as Somaliland’s success story proves.
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Personal Histories
The Books
A couple’s decision to combine bookshelves supplies a series of revelations.
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The Night Desk
The End Isn’t the End
When insomnia and technological convenience collide, a lifetime of binge reading reaches its full potential.
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Spoofs & Satire
Admirable Restraint
Understatement can help us cope with disaster. But in the case of Paul McCartney, a little doesn’t always go a long way.
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Gallery
Another Space and Time
A photographer asks people for the meaning of life while traveling through the Great American Desert.