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Americans Have Been Talking Less Every Year Since 2005
The researcher wasn't looking for this. Matthias Mehl, a psychology professor at the University of Arizona, was replicating a 2007 paper on gender differences in talkativeness when his collaborator came back with an average of 12,700 spoken words per day. The 2007...
The 4 Casino Design Tricks Buried Inside Every Social Media App
In March, a Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google liable for designing their platforms to addict young users — awarding $6 million in damages to a 20-year-old plaintiff who alleged that Instagram and YouTube contributed to severe depression and suicidal ideation...
What the Largest Teen Brain Study Just Found About Weed
Two major studies dropped this week within days of each other, and together they tell a story worth paying attention to — particularly if you're thinking about the arc of cannabis legalization over the past decade and what it's actually done to the teenagers living...
The Religious Gender Gap Just Reversed
For decades, the gender gap in American religiosity ran in one predictable direction: women were more religious than men, across virtually every measure — attendance, affiliation, personal importance of faith. That gap was so stable it became a background assumption...
Soft Socializing Is Booming (Here’s the Psychology Behind It)
Somewhere in the past few years, a specific kind of social event started quietly multiplying: the kind where nobody is required to be charming, nobody needs to sustain a conversation, and the thing you're doing together is more important than what you say to each...
How a San Diego DJ Became the Sultan of His Own Desert Nation
Somewhere between the date palm farms of California's Coachella Valley and the Mexican border, there is a sunburnt stretch of desert where Crocs are constitutionally banned, reply-all emails are a punishable offense, and speeding is technically legal — but only if...
Inside the Alpha Male Camps — and What Men Are Really Paying For
On a hot morning in central Virginia, nine men in black clothing were ordered out of a van. They'd been blindfolded for the drive. Each had paid $3,000 to spend three days crawling through mud, hauling rock-filled rucksacks, and submitting to what the program called a...
Politics Is Making You Worse at Thinking
Here is an uncomfortable thing the research on political psychology has established fairly clearly: the problem with political discourse isn't primarily the other side. It's a set of cognitive mechanisms that every human brain runs, regardless of party, that make...
Why Gen Z Declared Itself Chinese
Something is quietly spreading through social media feeds that has nothing to do with productivity hacks or wellness influencers hawking supplements. People are boiling apples for gut health. Swapping iced lattes for hot water. Shuffling around the house in slippers....
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