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Should I Be With Them?
We can spend a lot of time wondering whether or not we should be with a given person. But to…
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What Teddy Bears Teach Us About Love
If we were ever tempted to despair about the human capacity for love, we might recover hope by considering James…
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What Makes a Good Parent? A Checklist
Some people assume that you can’t really say what a good — or indeed a bad — parent actually is. But we don’t agree. So we’ve designed a checklist of what we think makes up a good parent.
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Why Abused Children End Up Hating Themselves
There is almost nothing sadder in the universe than the abuse of a child by its own parents. That a…
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The Seven Rules of Successful Relationships
We can spend a lot of time in relationships to which we are are ostensibly committed wondering, maybe with a…
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The Consolations of Catastrophe
Squatting at the centre of our societies is an immensely powerful force that operates with two distinctive ideas: it tells…
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What is the Point of History?
It is – viewed from the perspective of our own age – a distinctly unusual painting. Jacob de Wit, Truth…
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Why You Should Take a Sentence Completion Test
An urgent task of psychology is to devise tools that, rather like the claw crackers and spatulas served up in…
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Why Grandiosity is a Symptom of Self-Hatred
If we are looking to understand self-hatred, we should take a moment to consider a subsection of people who seem…
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The Origins of Imposter Syndrome
There is a peculiar affliction that may befall those who have spent many patient years working at their professional goals…
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How to Make Love Last Forever
When relationships start, enthusiasm for our partners is typically natural and intense. We think of them constantly, we want only…
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Why Abused Children End Up Hating Themselves
There is almost nothing sadder in the universe than the abuse of a child by its own parents. That a…
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Relationships
The Seven Rules of Successful Relationships
We can spend a lot of time in relationships to which we are are ostensibly committed wondering, maybe with a…
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Leisure
The Consolations of Catastrophe
Squatting at the centre of our societies is an immensely powerful force that operates with two distinctive ideas: it tells…
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Leisure
What is the Point of History?
It is – viewed from the perspective of our own age – a distinctly unusual painting. Jacob de Wit, Truth…
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Self-Knowledge
Why You Should Take a Sentence Completion Test
An urgent task of psychology is to devise tools that, rather like the claw crackers and spatulas served up in…
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Self-Knowledge
Why Grandiosity is a Symptom of Self-Hatred
If we are looking to understand self-hatred, we should take a moment to consider a subsection of people who seem…
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Self-Knowledge
The Origins of Imposter Syndrome
There is a peculiar affliction that may befall those who have spent many patient years working at their professional goals…
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Relationships
How to Make Love Last Forever
When relationships start, enthusiasm for our partners is typically natural and intense. We think of them constantly, we want only…
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