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[3:21] It’s remarkably hard to imagine what it might be like inside our minds. But doing so helps us to see that the real …

[5:38] Some of the trouble of long-term relationships comes from the vows we say at the beginning. We should learn to ref…

[56:43] Empathy is typically seen as wonderful, central to cooperation, caring, and morality. We want to have empathi…

[5:20] Going cold on our partners is often a sign not that we have stopped caring, but that we are – somewhere deep d…

[13:08] What is the correlation between, money, familiarity and the self explained. [Video and text source Serious Sc…

[4:43] ALL OF US ORIGINALLY STARDUST and then millions of years of evolution later and here we are as humans with our clos…

[1:06] Both pets and monkeys show a preference for people who help others in experiments, and the results might explain …

[2:49] Paul Bloom, psychologist and Yale professor, argues that empathy is a bad thing—that it makes the world worse…

[7:31] It turns out there’s quite a bit of cognitive dissonance impairing our understanding of motivation and h…

[2:36] Daniel J. Levitin is author of the new book, “The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Informat…