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Relationships
fromMail Online
6 days ago

Sexual arousal can lead to 'tunnel vision', study warns

Sexual arousal can distort perception, making ambiguous signals seem more romantic and causing people to miss rejection cues.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
4 weeks ago

There's a particular kind of loneliness that only hits people who are well-liked. It's the loneliness of being chosen for your warmth but never asked about your winters. Everyone assumes the person who makes them feel good must already feel good, and the assumption becomes the cage. - Silicon Canals

Well-liked individuals often mask their struggles, leading to loneliness despite social popularity.
fromPoynter
2 months ago

In the age of AI and body cameras, no video speaks for itself - Poynter

As a two-time Peabody Award-winning broadcast journalist and the founding director of the University of Colorado Boulder's Visual Evidence Lab - and as fellows at Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences - we understand how video can be easily manipulated. Even when genuine, it can distort reality by triggering our own biases. Video makes us believe we are witnessing events firsthand, but we are not.
US politics
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
4 months ago

Anxiety Affects the Brain to Distort Perception of Threat

Anxiety distorts perception, heightens threat-focused attention, sustains intrusive thoughts, and creates self-fulfilling negative behaviors that erode relationships and present-moment experience.
Digital life
fromInfoWorld
9 months ago

Who does the unsexy but essential work for open source?

Open source sustainability is often overlooked due to misconceptions about corporate contributions, brand biases, and the overshadowing of other metrics.
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