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Engineer’s Disease
There’s a term colloquially used in engineering (and connected) circles, “Engineer’s Disease” (sometimes “Engineer’s Syndrome”), that refers to the…
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Success & Perception
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Thought-Terminating Clichés
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Lizardman's Constant
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Additive Bias
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Social Anxiety Disorder
Social anxiety disorder, or SAD, often manifests as an intense fear of negative evaluations from other people.
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Collateral Contempt
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Mind Blanking
The term ‘absent-mindedness’ usually refers to a lapse in attention and memory, perhaps losing the thread of a task or forgetting someone’s name at an…
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Pre-Game Rituals
There’s a substantial volume of research showing that rituals of all sorts can have positive impacts on communities and the individuals that make up…
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Sociogenomics
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Commodity Fetishism
There’s a concept in economic theory and in Marxist philosophy called “Commodity Fetishism,” which refers to the tendency of people within capitalist…
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