The Marginalian
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Reads tagged with “psychology”

Chart Wars: The Steering Power of Data Visualization
Chart Wars: The Steering Power of Data Visualization

Data-washing, why designers are not to be messed with, and how seeing really is believing.

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The Happiness Project: Gretchen Rubin Spends a Year in Pursuit
The Happiness Project: Gretchen Rubin Spends a Year in Pursuit

A year’s worth of ideas, inspiration and innovation from culture’s collective brain.

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The Pink and Blue Projects: Exploring the Genderization of Color
The Pink and Blue Projects: Exploring the Genderization of Color

How political correctness resulted in enforcing a universal, cross-cultural gender stereotype.

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Robots In Our Image
Robots In Our Image

How a biblical creation myth replays itself from bone and muscle to jazz improvisation.

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Notes & Neurons: Music, Emotion and the Brain
Notes & Neurons: Music, Emotion and the Brain

From axons to a cappella, or why music gives us chills and thrills.

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FaceSense: Mind-reading from MIT
FaceSense: Mind-reading from MIT

70’s-style mind-reading for the digital age, or why we all say one thing and mean another.

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Music Meets Philosophy: The Happiness Project
Music Meets Philosophy: The Happiness Project

Neighborly wisdom, music innovation, and the extraordinariness of ordinary human speech.

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East Meets West: An Infographic Portrait
East Meets West: An Infographic Portrait

German punctuality, Western ego and how to stand in line like a Chinese.

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Subway Personality: The MBTI Map
Subway Personality: The MBTI Map

What your subway station has to do with your propensity for extroversion.

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TEDGlobal Highlights: Day 4
TEDGlobal Highlights: Day 4

Solid sand, the art of curation, why doing nothing matters, and how to get 700 of the world’s smartest people singing.

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