Six future Trump officials wrote books before taking office. All six leaned hardest on the same metaphor.
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Six future Trump officials wrote books before taking office. All six leaned hardest on the same metaphor.
Before joining the second Trump administration, J. D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, and three other future officials wrote books that framed politics largely through metaphors of war, decline, disease, and betrayal. Metaphors of threat outnumbered metaphors of renewal by about nine to one.
Intelligence alone may not win you status. A new evolutionary psychology study hints at what does.
People may reward intelligence for what it can do for the group rather than for its own sake. A new study found that the link between students’ test scores and the respect they earned appeared to run through how well they solved a group coordination problem.
People who favor science over religious dogma are surprisingly open to believing in ghosts and magic
As traditional religious affiliations decline, supernatural beliefs are not vanishing. A new survey reveals that people who favor secular reasoning over religious authority often hold magical or superstitious beliefs, provided they maintain some residual connection to spirituality.
Expecting entitlement, researchers asked young men about sex. What they found was fear, vigilance, and shame.
Some young men may have absorbed a cultural suspicion of men so deeply that they see themselves as potential perpetrators, according to an interview study that found fear and shame crowding out pleasure in their accounts of sex.
The psychological bias keeping U.S. drug laws out of step with science
Telling Americans how harmful alcohol and tobacco really are reduced their support for keeping those substances legal. But giving similar expert ratings for less harmful illegal drugs, such as LSD and MDMA, barely changed opinions.
People high in neuroticism report sleeping less, but wrist monitors tell a different story
People who are prone to worry and negative emotions often say they sleep less. A new study suggests that may reflect how they perceive and report their sleep rather than how much they actually sleep.
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