How Culture Shapes the Stories We Tell About Our Emotions
To capture human emotion in all its richness, we have to broaden where and how we study it.
Commentary
Why Randomness Doesn’t Feel Random
Most of us tend to think of randomness as being “well spaced.” Genuinely random distributions seem to contradict our inherent ideas of what randomness should look like.
A Better Way to Ask for Advice
Don’t ask to pick someone’s brain. You’ll get better results from inviting them to retrace their route instead.
What If I’m Wrong?
Good thinkers frequently ask themselves this question, the way good doctors frequently check their practices against the Hippocratic oath they swore.
The Intelligent Failure that Led to the Discovery of Psychological Safety
I don’t doubt that my failure to find support for the simple research hypothesis that guided my first study was the best thing that ever happened to my research career. Of course, it didn’t feel that way in the moment.
What Does Boredom Teach Us About How We Engage with History?
Teenagers get bored about a lot, but boredom is not a given. When it comes to engaging with difficult topics, it’s worth asking: Whose interests does boredom serve? What does it help people avoid?