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How your friends change what you buy
Without being paid, other people promote brands to us everyday. Our friends might wear T-shirts bearing a little man riding a horse. Our...
Nov 10, 20182 min read


We do what we imagine others do, even though we know what others do is wrong
Sometimes our understanding of people is so flawed that our attempts to change what they do have the opposite effect. In Arizona, there is...
Nov 1, 20182 min read


We like things more the more we see them
Most of us are fortunate enough to be surrounded by things we like. There has to be something wrong with the man who lives with pictures...
Sep 25, 20182 min read


What is music for?
Psychologists puzzle over art in general. For some genres, they can give glib (and almost certainly wrong) defences. Maybe we like pretty...
Jul 6, 20182 min read
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