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A scenario many of us experience on a weekly basis: You’re stuck in traffic on a two-lane highway, and the lanes converge into one up ahead. You merged early, and have been patiently waiting your turn behind other cars. Then some jerk zooms by in the other lane, goes all the way to where lane ends,
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In the 1990s, a psychologist named Martin Seligman led the positive psychology movement, which placed the study of human happiness squarely at the center of psychology research and theory. It continued a trend that began in the 1960s with humanistic and existential psychology, which emphasized the importance of reaching one’s innate potential and creating meaning
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A marvelous feature of the digital age is that we have opportunities to see films that were nearly impossible to view even decades ago. In some cases, the films were banned. This was the case with the 1935 Nazi propaganda film “Triumph of the Will.” Despite its palpable evil, it was one of the great
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The latest instalment in the Star Wars franchise was a huge disappointment to die-hard fans. The movie’s sins are too numerous to recount here, but they amount to a complete abandonment of everything that made the original series a success in the first place. “Star Wars is dead; The Last Jedi killed it” is the
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A few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a young lady in her early twenties. Having graduated with her bachelor’s degree several months before, she was now reflecting on her current job prospects and her future ambitions. “I’m kind of thinking about going to grad school,” she confessed. Not wanting to dampen her ambition,
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If you talked to friends or family about politics over Thanksgiving, you might not have changed each other’s minds. But don’t be discouraged – and consider talking with them again as the holiday season continues. As a scholar of political dialogue, for the past decade I have been studying conversations between people who disagree about politics. What
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