Brain Lenses

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Color Perception
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Colin Wright
3:59
Social Anxiety Disorder
Social anxiety disorder, or SAD, often manifests as an intense fear of negative evaluations from other people.
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Colin Wright
Collateral Contempt
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Colin Wright
2:47
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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Colin Wright
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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Colin Wright
Sociogenomics
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Colin Wright
3:04
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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Colin Wright
Marriage Premium
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Colin Wright
3:28
Thinking About Thinking
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Colin Wright
3:41
Wealth and Sleep
Having more money, or even just more income (which implies the promise of more money in the future) comes with many psychological benefits, most of them…
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Colin Wright
The Forgetting Curve
In psychology, there are seven types of named memory failure: persistence, bias, misattribution, absent-mindedness, blocking, suggestibility, and…
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Colin Wright
Active Procrastination
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