HeyJaredMarc Wilson
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Us & them: What happens when we decide other people aren’t part of our group (opens the original)
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Every time a politician calls a group “vermin”, or a man calls women “bitches”, they’re dehumanising them. Photo / Getty Images It’s generally considered that humans have six basic emotions: fear, anger, surprise, disgust, sadness and happiness. Great. It means we can understand what other people are feeling on the inside from their (reasonably) universal expressions of these emotions. Wide eyes mean surprise, screwed up mouth means disgust, a smile signals happiness. We even generalise these em
How blood phobia triggers different physical responses to reactions from other phobias (opens the original)
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Blood phobias are part of why the New Zealand Blood Service needs you. Good on you if you’re part of the 4% who can, and do, donate. Photo / Getty Images The boy has now finished his cybersecurity engineering degree, so he’s finally pulled the curtain on his weekend job at a Wellington technology, electronics and home appliance store. His mum visited him on his last day, past a vaguely familiar man in a beanie. “Mum, that’s Homelander!” the boy pointed out, and sure enough, it was an incognito A
The mysterious OCD caused by an unhealthy preoccupation with sin (opens the original)
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Scrupulosity isn’t listed in the DSM under the OCD umbrella, but some people who work clinically think it should be. Image / Getty Images I learnt a new word recently. “Scrupulosity”. I came across this on a podcast by never-Trumper Jonathan V Last, a Catholic who occasionally educates his colleagues about what that involves. Scrupulosity, he said, is an unhealthy, obsessive preoccupation with one’s sins. Colloquially, “scruples” are the moral principles and thoughtful reservations that inform o
New weight-loss drugs deter over-eating but psychological effects may not be as useful (opens the original)
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The use of weight-loss drugs has exploded in recent years. Researchers are now beginning to study their psychological effects. Photo / Getty Images ‘I was stunned how it quieted the food noise.” That’s multi-talented entertainer, Rosie O’Donnell, speaking last month. What’s the “it”? Mounjaro, one of the brand names for prescription weight management medication tirzepatide, manufactured by Eli Lilly and Company. Yes, yes, it’s not just a weight management drug. It’s also prescribed for sleep apn
Marc Wilson: Why it's not just health and wealth keeping the world’s happiest citizens in fine fettle (opens the original)
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The nations that spend the most on wellness aren’t necessarily the ones that experience the highest levels of wellness. Photo / Getty Images ‘Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here? We always take people from Somalia.” In this 2018 meeting with senators, President Donald Trump apparently also said, “Why can’t we have some people from Norway?” One answer, Donald, is that people from Norway may not want to leave their Scandinavian utopia ‒ relative utopia, anyway. The
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