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• Testing Running Against Antidepressants — The SMILE Trial and the 25 Years Since

  Everyone says exercise is good for your mood, but clinical trials that randomly assign patients with depression to exercise or an antidepressant and compare them head to head are rare. In 1999, the SMILE study led by Blu

  2026-07-20 · 6 min read #psychology#paper-review#mindset#exercise#mental-health

• The Marshmallow Test Is Only Half True — From the Original Paper to the 2018 Replication

  The marshmallow test supposedly proves that patience at age 4 decides your life. Read the original paper, though, and the popular myth starts to crack. What the 1972 Mischel experiment actually showed (waiting is a matte

  2026-07-20 · 6 min read #psychology#paper-review#mindset#self-control#replication

• A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind — The 250,000-Moment Happiness Study Run on iPhones

  A two-page paper published in Science in 2010 sampled the daily lives of 2,250 people in real time through a smartphone app and reported striking findings: people spend 47% of their waking hours thinking about something

  2026-07-20 · 6 min read #psychology#paper-review#mindset#happiness#focus

• Does the Gratitude Journal Actually Work — The Counting Blessings Experiment and Honest Effect Sizes

  The gratitude journal, that staple prescription of self-help content, traces back to the 2003 counting-blessings experiment by Emmons and McCullough. The group that wrote down five things they were grateful for each week

  2026-07-20 · 6 min read #psychology#paper-review#mindset#gratitude#healing

• Does Language Determine Thought — The Fall and Rise of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

  Hundreds of Eskimo words for snow, a language with no time — stories that language determines thought are as fascinating as they are a history of exaggeration. This post traces why the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf h

  2026-07-20 · 7 min read #humanities#linguistics#language#cognition#psychology

• Two Weeks on Six Hours Equals Two All-Nighters — The Dose-Response Experiment on Sleep Debt

  There is a paper to show anyone who says "I am fine on six hours." In 2003, Van Dongen's team isolated participants in a lab for two weeks, assigned them to exactly 4, 6, or 8 hours of sleep, and measured cognition every

  2026-07-20 · 6 min read #psychology#paper-review#mindset#sleep#health

• Jordan Peterson's Major Books: A Thoughtful Reader's Guide

  Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist and a genuinely polarizing public figure. This guide sets the political controversy aside and focuses on the actual content of his three major books — 12 Rules for Life (2018),

  2026-07-11 · 6 min read #books#self-improvement#psychology#jordan-peterson#philosophy

• The Elite Athlete Mindset, With the Poster Peeled Off — What the Research on Practice, Pressure, and Belief Actually Shows

  The elite athlete mindset is a staple of motivational posters, but the actual sports psychology is more careful, and more interesting, than the slogans. This post walks through Carol Dweck's growth mindset (and the false

  2026-07-11 · 5 min read #mindset#psychology#performance#sports#deliberate-practice

• Habits Aren't Built in 21 Days: Re-reading Micro-Habits Through the 66-Day Study

  'It takes 21 days to build a habit' is folklore that traces to a 1960 surgeon's observation, not a habit experiment. Lally and colleagues' 2010 study, which tracked real behaviour, found a median of 66 days to automatici

  2026-07-11 · 6 min read #self-improvement#habits#psychology#productivity#behavior-change

• Most Arguments Are About Ego, Not Ideas

  When we argue, we believe we are contesting ideas, but we are often touching the other person’s sense of self. Through cognitive dissonance, identity-protective cognition, and the backfire effect, this piece explains why

  2026-07-06 · 5 min read #communication#psychology#thinking#career

• The Secrets of Memory — It Is a Skill, Not a Talent

  Memory is not a fixed talent you are born with but a combination of techniques and biology you can exploit. The Ebbinghaus forgetting curve, the spacing effect, retrieval practice (the testing effect), the memory palace,

  2026-07-04 · 9 min read #memory#learning#psychology#cognition

• Where Confidence Really Comes From

  Durable confidence is not the product of positive thinking — it is the residue of evidence. Drawing on Bandura self-efficacy theory, the Dunning-Kruger effect, impostor syndrome, and Dweck growth mindset, this post expla

  2026-07-03 · 12 min read #psychology#confidence#growth#learning

• Rereading Crime and Punishment — The Question Dostoevsky Left Us

  A young man kills a pawnbroker and then collapses from within. Through Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment we examine conscience and redemption, the superman idea, and the essence of the psychological novel. Spoilers are kep

  2026-07-02 · 13 min read #literature#dostoevsky#russian-novel#psychology#classic-review

• Healthy Boundaries — Staying True to Yourself While Growing Closer

  A look at why healthy boundaries are not a wall that pushes people away but a door that lets you grow closer. We cover the kinds of boundaries, why they are hard to set, example phrases for expressing them without confli

  2026-07-01 · 23 min read #relationships#boundaries#communication#self-care#psychology

• The Art of Good Conversation — Making a First Meeting Feel Easy

  A look at the psychology behind good conversation on a first meeting. We cover listening and curiosity, the reciprocity of self-disclosure, open questions, finding common ground, conversational anti-patterns, and respect

  2026-07-01 · 22 min read #relationships#communication#dating#listening#psychology

• The Science of Procrastination — Why We Pass the Buck to Tomorrow-Us

  Procrastination is not laziness but a failure of emotion regulation. From present bias and time inconsistency to the tug-of-war between the limbic system and prefrontal cortex, to the two-minute rule and temptation bundl

  2026-07-01 · 25 min read #culture#procrastination#psychology#emotion-regulation#behavioral-science

• Attachment and Conflict Resolution: Keeping Fights from Ruining a Relationship

  A look at how attachment styles shape relationships and why conflict is inevitable. We cover the skills of healthy fighting, such as I-messages, time-outs, and repair attempts, how to break the pursue-withdraw cycle, and

  2026-06-27 · 9 min read #relationships#attachment#conflict#communication#psychology

• The Science of a Lasting Marriage — What Actually Keeps a Relationship Together

  Following what decades of long-term relationship research, including John Gottman’s work, appears to suggest, this piece looks at what sustains a lasting marriage. It covers the four warning signs and their antidotes, th

  2026-06-27 · 19 min read #culture#relationships#marriage#psychology#communication

• Are Men and Women Really Different? The Science and Myths of Sex Differences

  A calm look at common beliefs about differences between men and women, weighed against the research. We examine average differences versus large individual variation, the interplay of socialization and biology, and the h

  2026-06-27 · 13 min read #psychology#relationships#gender#communication#science

• What Makes a Good Partner: The Qualities That Build a Lasting Relationship

  A survey of the universal qualities that build lasting relationships. We look at honesty and respect, emotional maturity, communication, and trust as human virtues that have nothing to do with sex, along with insights fr

  2026-06-27 · 9 min read #relationships#psychology#self-growth#communication#trust