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Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs
We've got the wrong theory about how minds work and it's ruining our lives
Adam Mastroianni
1) Find what's true and make it useful. 2) Publish every other Tuesday. 3) Photo cred: my dad. Click to read Experimental History, by Adam Mastroianni, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
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Good conversations have lots of doorknobs
Or "Spiderman Is My Boyfriend"
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Why aren't smart people happier?
A new way to think about brainpower.
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Hacking the Hedonic Treadmill
Hacking the happiness treadmill
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Pop culture has become an oligopoly
A cartel of superstars has conquered culture. How did it happen, and what should we do about it?
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The rise and fall of peer review
Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing
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Against All Applications
Imagining better ways of picking people
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Eight studies reveal a bias in human imagination
Eight studies reveal a (possibly universal) bias in human imagination