Reads tagged with “psychology”
“Tip-of-the-Tongue Syndrome,” Transactive Memory, and How the Internet Is Making Us Smarter
“A public library keeps no intentional secrets about its mechanisms; a search engine keeps many.”
How Antidepressants Affect Selfhood, Teenage Sexuality, and Our Quest for Personal Identity
“Though antidepressants are effective at managing negative emotions, they don’t in themselves provide the sense of meaning and direction that a person equally needs in order to find her way in life.”
How to Build a Universe: Philip K. Dick on Reality, Media Manipulation, and Human Heroism
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
What Is Creativity? Cultural Icons on What Ideation Is and How It Works
Bradbury, Eames, Angelou, Gladwell, Einstein, Byrne, Duchamp, Close, Sendak, and more.
Charles Bukowski on Writing and His Crazy Daily Routine
“Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money.”
David Foster Wallace on Writing, Death, and Redemption
“You don’t have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness … has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I’m going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.”
How to Do the “Step-and-Slide”: A Cognitive Scientist on the Rules of Avoidance, Alignment, and Attraction for Deft Urban Walking
The intricate art of the pedestrian jig, essential for maintaining personal space in a public place.
Conspicuous Outrage: Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf’s Nephew, on Sartorial Morality, the Art of Fashion, and the Futility of War
“In sociological studies fashion plays the role which has been allotted to Drosophila, the fruit fly, in the science of genetics.”
Salinger and the Architecture of Personal Mythology
How “a broken soldier and a wounded soul transformed himself, through his art, into an icon of the twentieth century and then, through his religion, destroyed that art.”
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