Psychology

2024-11-13: I’m reluctant to volunteer my own evidence-free theory into the morass of folk providing …

2024-10-27: Tell me how you measure me and I will tell you how I will behave. If you measure me in an illogical …

2024-10-23: Two types of information overload: the situational vs the ambient

2024-10-17: It is a battle evident in the psyche of many partnered people, and especially so in midlife. It …

The Riddle of Ambition: Don’t commoditise your ambition - use it to know yourself.

A battle with the gods: Exercising creativity is difficult, but forgoing the attempt may be even worse.

‘Excuse Me. May I Have Your Seat?': A less widely-known Milgram experiment - asking someone to let you have their subway seat.

2024-07-23: Think about your actual rather than idealised office when deciding whether to go into work

2024-07-03: A new Channel 4 documentary asks us 'Can AI steal your vote?'

2024-06-02: 📚 Finished reading Lost in a Good Game by Pete Etchells.

2024-03-07: The day Replika lobotomised everyone's AI girlfriend

2024-01-09: Compassion beats empathy in a helpless situation

2024-01-06: Visiting Sigmund Freud's last home

2023-12-22: 📚 Finished reading Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth.

2023-11-28: 📚 Finished reading The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul.

2023-11-21: Humans will go to considerable effort to get obviously useless information

2023-11-15: 📚 Finished reading Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

2023-10-22: In a recent paper, researchers compared the trends in Google searches that suggest people are …

2023-09-21: What causes the Overton Paradox?