The Riddle of Ambition: Don’t commoditise your ambition - use it to know yourself.
Psychology
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 …
2024-10-03
2024-09-26
A battle with the gods: Exercising creativity is difficult, but forgoing the attempt may be even worse.
2024-09-18
‘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: Professor Etchells explains his personal experience and the scientific research around playing computer games
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: Being You: Anil Seth's new theory of consciousness
2023-11-28: "The Extended Mind" teaches us how to improve our thinking in some counterintuitive ways
2023-11-21: Humans will go to considerable effort to get obviously useless information
2023-11-15: Crime and Punishment - the original psychological thriller
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?