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A 2020 study published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery noted a high percentage of young physicians exhibiting “unprofessional behavior” on their personal social-media accounts. “Unprofessional behavior” included drinking alcoholic beverages, expressing political and religious convictions, participating in social activism, and wearing bikinis. Th
... See moreSuzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
Taylor had discovered “positive illusion”—the opposite of depressive realism, a kind of healthy illusion found not just in a trivial button-pushing test, but in life-threatening illness.
Nassir Ghaemi • A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt • Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
I figured Professor Haidt would speak about moral psychology, the theme of his book. But instead, on the day of the talk, Haidt discussed the purpose of a university. He urged the audience to consider whether the aim of higher education is to protect students or to equip them with the ability to seek truth, and he was clearly in favor of the latter
... See moreRob Henderson • Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
Ben-Nun Bloom indicates that popular measures of values and morality have a common genetic basis.
Oxford University Press • The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology (OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES)
Amanda Ripley describes it, the gun control article “read less like a lawyer’s opening statement and more like an anthropologist’s field notes.”
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Thompson, by eighth grade 50 percent of kids still make decisions of moral consequence based on whether they will lead to punishment.