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Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu called it "a new approach to warfare that focuses on creating destabilizing revolutions in other states at low...

The cruelest part of performative belief is that it feels like conviction. You get emotionally invested. You argue passionately. You feel outrage when...

Social psychologist Philip Zimbardo's research on the "Lucifer Effect" explains how ordinary people commit extraordinary cruelty when they believe they're serving a higher...

Outrage offers an emotional shortcut. It allows people to discharge anger without examining their own assumptions.

For years, the idea that social platforms were flooded with fake users lived in the realm of conspiracy or exaggeration. The phrase “dead...

We have more access to information than at any point in human history, and yet public disagreement has hardened, not softened.

Cosmically speaking, you barely register. And yet, inside the narrow slice of reality you do touch... you matter profoundly.

Once someone is placed inside the container, curiosity stops.  You don’t need to ask who they are.  You already “know.”  Another label is...

There’s a reason tribalism is powerful: it gives people protection from discomfort. Your tribe decides your opinions for you. Your job is just...