Sat Mar 9, 2019 03:39 PM
Sun Mar 3, 2019 06:33 AM
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/10/12/what-are-we-like-10-psychology-findings-that-reveal-the-worst-of-human-nature/ We view minorities and the vulnerable as less than human. We already experience schadenfreude at the age of four. We believe in Karma – assuming that the downtrodden of the world must deserve their fate. We are blinkered and dogmatic – (participants who believed strongly for or against the death penalty completely ignored facts that undermined their position, actually doubling-down on their initial view.) We would rather electrocute ourselves than spend time in our own thoughts. We are vain and overconfident. (most of us walk about with inflated views of our abilities and qualities, such as our driving skills, intelligence and attractiveness. In fact, even jailed criminals think they are kinder, more trustworthy and honest than the average member of the public.) We are moral hypocrites. (chances are the moral preacher is as guilty themselves, but of course they happen to take a far lighter view of their own transgressions.) We are all potential trolls. (online trolling … revealed how being in a bad mood, and being exposed to trolling by others, together double the likelihood of a person engaging in trolling) We favour ineffective leaders with psychopathic traits. (there is indeed a modest but significant link between trait psychopathy and leadership emergence … psychopathy also correlates with poorer leadership performance.) We are sexually attracted to people with dark personality traits. (men and women are sexually attracted, at least in the short-term, to people displaying the so-called “dark triad” of traits – narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism – thus risking further propagating these traits.)
Tue Mar 5, 2019 11:05 AM
Scientists who deny climate change are not modern-day Galileos.
Wed Mar 6, 2019 09:23 AM
Philip Caper’s guest column about how universal health care is quite affordable
Wed Mar 6, 2019 10:59 AM
Speaking to reporters in Washington, Obama called on Trump to prove once and for all that he had completed a K-through-five program.
Wed Mar 6, 2019 11:36 AM
The 622-page overhaul seeks to remake the nation’s voting, campaign finance and lobbying laws. It would impose new requirements on states to offer early voting and online and same-day voter registration. It would establish new ethical standards for executive branch officials and Supreme Court justices. The measure would establish an optional 6-to-1 public matching system for small donations in congressional elections.
In addition, the package would set new guidelines for the types of behind-the-scenes advising that would require someone to register as a federal lobbyist and would give new investigative authority to the Justice Department’s Foreign Agents Registration Act unit, which monitors foreign lobbying campaigns in the United States.
Wed Mar 6, 2019 01:46 PM
Andrea Hurd of Mariposa Gardening was nowhere near retirement when she decided a few years ago to convert her business to a worker cooperative. She had grown her company and developed her own style of ecological garden design. As a woman in a male-dominated industry, I felt a huge passion for building a larger company, [&]
Wed Mar 6, 2019 08:01 PM
China is exploiting Africa’s resources just like European colonisers did, with disastrous effects for the environment, acclaimed primatologist Jane Goodall has told AFP.On the eve of her 80th birthday, the fiery British wildlife crusader is whizzing across the world giving a series of lectures on th…
Sat Mar 9, 2019 03:39 PM
Chinese consumers have been the top foreign buyers in both units and dollar volume of residential housing for six years straight.
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