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Joke Proximity
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Jan 22 • Colin Wright
2:18
Next-Door Neighbors
A 2025 paper looking at the influence a child’s next-door neighbors have on their eventual career trajectory found that these neighbors meaningfully…
Jan 22 • Colin Wright
Enacted Extraversion
The concepts of introversion and extraversion were developed by Carl Jung as part of his larger conception of Personality Theory.
Jan 20 • Colin Wright
Sports and Politics
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Jan 20 • Colin Wright
4:05
Focusing Issues
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Jan 15 • Colin Wright
3:36
Virtual Empathy
There’s evidence that virtual simulations, even imperfect, polygonal ones, can trigger immune responses in users who are exposed to obviously sick…
Jan 15 • Colin Wright
Contagious Smiles
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Jan 13 • Colin Wright
3:01
Rumpelstiltskin Effect
A recent review article published in the BJPsych Bulletin looks at an effect that’s long been documented by medical practitioners, but which hasn’t been…
Jan 13 • Colin Wright
Healthy User Effect
In the world of health-related research, there’s growing evidence that many studies have shown exaggerated results not because the pharmaceutical or…
Jan 8 • Colin Wright
Traffic Noise Cost
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Jan 8 • Colin Wright
2:54
Mental Subtraction
There’s a fair bit of research that suggests gratitude—feeling thankful for what we have—can have a positive influence on our sense of well-being, can…
Jan 6 • Colin Wright
Vision Splitting
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Jan 6 • Colin Wright
2:49
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