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• Why Are Men Fascinated With Big Breasts — Curious why men are so fascinated with big breasts? I trace the history from ancient art and Renaissance corsets to mode
• What Is A Bristle Reaction & What Can It Mean? — Ever tense up during a hug and wonder why? In this post I explain what is a bristle reaction, why it happens, and what i
• Sex with a Sleeping Person: The Psychology of Somnophilia — What drives attraction to sex with a sleeping person? In this post I unpack the psychology of somnophilia, summarizing a
• Have You Ever Fantasized About Someone You Hate? — Ever wondered why you might fantasize about someone you hate? Using a survey of 4,175 Americans for my book Tell Me What
• The Psychology of Hentai Porn — Surprising fact: hentai topped Pornhub’s 2021 searches. In this post I use a 4,175 person survey from my book Tell Me Wh
• Breaking the Chains: Uncovering the Roots of Limiting Beliefs — Break free from limiting beliefs and generational conditioning! Discover how societal expectations, historical mindsets,
• When psychologists mislead us — Think the Stanford Prison Experiment proved innate cruelty? In this piece I retrace Piltdown Man and landmark cases like
• Mind & body — Startling cases of teenage refugees in Sweden going into coma made me rethink the mind body problem. Then I review Suzan
• Catastrophes and mental collapse — Sometimes the world feels surrendered to fossil fuel power, and my climate anxiety and mental health are fraying. I writ
• Fiction, versus reality’s lack of resolution — What if story beats kept us hopeful about climate change, but reality has no tidy resolution? This post tracks how ficti
• Not doing well — Not doing well is my honest reply these days. I explain how multilateralism and evidence-based policy are collapsing whi
• The environmental movement and young people’s rage — Remember that book 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth? I revisit my childhood copy to show how the environme
• Mars as a refuge for humanity? — Think Mars is a Plan B? I argue Mars as a refuge for humanity is a myth. I explain why Mars colonization myths fall apar
• Some large language model pathologies — Ever had an LLM invent a photo you forgot to attach? Here I catalogue LLM pathologies I’ve seen in Gemini and ChatGPT, f
• Can We Introspectively Test the Global Workspace Theory of Consciousness? — What if conscious experience isn't simply on or off? I revisit Global Workspace Theory and whether we can introspectivel
• Is Signal Strength a Confound in Consciousness Research? — Could signal strength be a confound in consciousness research? I push back on Michel and Lau, unpacking the blindsight e
• Forensic storytelling — A single autopsy report stopped me in my tracks. I read a medical examiner's report and watched a life flatten into clin
• Eidetic Memory vs. Photographic Memory: Do They Exist? — Think you have a photographic memory? I separate myth from science, explain what eidetic imagery actually is, why it is
• Types of Attention — A meditation rupture last year changed how I notice the types of attention I can give. I map attention registers from ch
• Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century. — I start with Saturday morning TV memories of Swapshop and TISWAS, then dig into Victorian swap advertisements and the wi
• Two kinds of serial killer — A grim but oddly analytical look at how we talk about serial killers. I explore the different archetypes, media narrativ
• His Own Worst Enemy — Watching a public figure self-destruct in real time is equal parts tragic and darkly funny. I dig into ego, bad decision
• Weapons of Mass Delusion — From conspiracy theories to online echo chambers, I unpack how misinformation spreads and why people cling to it. A rant
• Quiet Before the Storm — Something feels off too calm, too staged. I’m writing about that uneasy pause before everything kicks off again, whether
• On economics — I’ve been thinking about everyday economics: incentives, trade-offs, and how people actually make decisions. A few infor
• The Walmart Field Study Nobody Asked For — I spent too long wandering Walmart and accidentally conducted a very real field study on modern life, retail psychology,
• Life is sweeter when there is money — I reflect on how life feels sweeter with money. While it doesn’t buy happiness, having financial stability removes stres
• Is Poverty a Condition or a Mindset? — I reflect on whether poverty is just a condition or also a mindset that shapes decisions, beliefs, and possibilities. Dr
• Regression to the mean — Explains regression to the mean as a mental model: extreme events usually followed by more average ones, so don’t overre
• Femdom Fiction – Hypnosis and Stockings — A short piece of femdom fiction exploring control, anticipation, and ritual. Focuses on psychological dominance, atmosph