Polarization is advancing by leaps and bounds. We embrace and disseminate increasingly extreme positions with disturbing insouciance, forgetting about …
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Social Psychology
3 psychological obstacles that great leaders know how to manage
"The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, …
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How do funeral rituals help us process the pain of loss?
Nothing prepares us for the death of a loved one. There is also nothing to prepare us for what comes next. When a person dies, he leaves behind a life …
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Being the scapegoat in a toxic family
Throughout history and cultures, different religions have performed ritual sacrifices to atone for their sins, evils, and community guilt feelings. On …
Diffusion of responsibility: If not you, who?
In 1968 the psychologists John Darley and Bibb Latané made an experiment that revealed a very curious phenomenon: the diffusion of responsibility. …
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The fallacy of quietism: Thinking that silence gives consent
"There are few things as deafening as silence", wrote Mario Benedetti. The silences hide illusions, fears, concerns, confusion, resignation ... …
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Argument from authority, the resource of those who have no arguments
All of us, at some point, have succumbed to the argumentum ab veritate or argumentum ad verecundiam or argument from authority. It is not difficult, …
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