findings & anecdotes
Porn Star James Deen GQ Profile - July 2012: Celebrities
It is a clement spring day in greater Los Angeles, and James Deen is driving through the soft green tumescences of the Calabasas hills on his way to a pornographic-movie shoot.Psychologists discover oxytocin receptor gene's link to optimism, self-esteem
Sep. 14, 2011 — UCLA life scientists have identified for the first time a particular gene's link to optimism, self-esteem and "mastery," the belief that one has control over one's own life -- three critical psychological resources for coping well with stress and depression.
What are the causes of success? At first glance, the answer is easy: success is about talent.
Which Traits Predict Success? (The Importance of Grit) | Wired Science
The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation
I. The Poverty of Attention I ’m going to pause here, right at the beginning of my riveting article about attention, and ask you to please get all of your precious 21st-century distractions out of your system now.
Cinnamon Stillwell never thought she'd be the founder of a political organization.
Psychology Today: The Ideological Animal
How Violent Sex Helped Ease My PTSD - Media
It was my research editor who told me it was completely nuts to willingly get fucked at gunpoint. That's what she called me when I told her the story. We were drunk and in a karaoke bar, so at the time I came up with only a wounded face and a whiny, "I'm not completely nuuuuts!"