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🇺🇸 Madman theory: Playing crazy doesn’t work — in diplomacy or in love — 10/04/2026 [USA]
Both political scientists and relationship therapists agree that performed and manufactured chaos almost never works as a power move — not between nations and not between people.
Related: #Diplomacy, #Social Dynamics
🇺🇸 Lukas Dhont’s ‘Coward’ First Look Shows Soldiers in Battle Ahead of Cannes Competition — 09/04/2026 [USA]
The Belgian director’s period drama and his third to launch on the Croisette follows a soldier grappling with cowardice and heroism in the trenches of the First World War.
Related: #Cinema, #War
🇺🇸 The creeping feeling that life is getting too long — 09/04/2026 [USA]
Why our lengthening lifespans are not entirely welcome
Related: #Demographics, #Economics, #Society
🇺🇸 Do you lean optimistic or pessimistic? Take this quiz and find out — 27/03/2026 [USA]
A glass-half-full outlook can keep you engaged and hopeful in hard times. Take this quiz to find out your level of optimism, then learn how to train yourself to become more optimistic.
Related: #Self-improvement
🇺🇸 Are you sure you know what 'gaslighting' is? — 25/03/2026 [USA]
Therapists say we're overusing the word. Here's what it actually means — and what the Ingrid Bergman film that helped birth the word can teach us about it.
Related: #Language
🇺🇸 Confessions of a $7 Million Cat Burglar — 19/03/2026 [USA]
Jennifer Gomez used her upper-middle-class upbringing to inform a prolific life of crime. Here’s how she did it
Related: #Crime
🇺🇸 Internalizing Agency from Reflective Experience — 18/03/2026 [USA]
arXiv:2603.16843v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents that must plan, act, and recover from mistakes through long-horizon interaction wi...
Related: #Personal Development
🇬🇧 How you walk reveals to others how you are feeling, researchers say — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Study highlights the movements in people’s gait that give away most about their emotional stateA long face is not the only sign that someone is down in the dumps. How people walk is revealin...
Related: #Non-verbal Communication
🇺🇸 The Phenomenology of Hallucinations — 17/03/2026 [USA]
arXiv:2603.13911v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We show that language models hallucinate not because they fail to detect uncertainty, but because of a failure to integrate it into output generation. ...
Related: #Perception, #Mental Health
🇺🇸 AI Psychometrics: Evaluating the Psychological Reasoning of Large Language Models with Psychometric Validities — 13/03/2026 [USA]
arXiv:2603.11279v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The immense number of parameters and deep neural networks make large language models (LLMs) rival the complexity of human brains, which also makes them...
Related: #AI Evaluation
🇬🇧 Try small steps and set the bar low: how to find the meaning of life — 12/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Don’t treat it as a lofty quest, experts say. You can make each day feel more meaningful with humbler methodsWhat makes your life meaningful?If you don’t really know, you’re far from ...
Related: #Self-improvement
🇺🇸 Think Before You Lie: How Reasoning Improves Honesty — 11/03/2026 [USA]
arXiv:2603.09957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While existing evaluations of large language models (LLMs) measure deception rates, the underlying conditions that give rise to deceptive behavior are ...
Related: #Ethics
🇬🇧 ‘Charismatic and extremely confident’: how to recognise – and handle – a psychopath — 10/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Psychologist Leanne ten Brinke has spent decades studying toxic personality traits. What are the red flags to look out for among workmates, politicians and potential partners?Coming face to ...
Related: #Behavioral Traits
🇺🇸 Left-Handed People Are More Competitive, Says Science — 08/03/2026 [USA]
A recent study suggests that left-handed people have an advantage in competitive contexts, while righties tend to cooperate better.
Related: #Neuroscience
🇬🇧 I expect friends to let me down and then I play the victim. How can I stop? | Annalisa Barbieri — 08/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Pessimism can be a form of self-protection, so it might be helpful to reflect on where this pattern startedI am a 38-year-old woman with three kids and a husband. I ...
Related: #Friendship
🇺🇸 Why Missile Alerts and War Updates Trigger Doomscrolling — 03/03/2026 [USA]
A combination of war alerts, breaking news updates, and algorithmic feeds are trapping users in a threat-monitoring loop.
Related: #Technology, #Media
🇺🇸 I died for 40 minutes - here's what it taught me about life — 12/02/2026 [USA]
After a cardiac arrest Patrick Charnley was clinically dead. He came back to life a changed man.
Related: #Health, #Inspiration
🇺🇸 Thanks Olympics. We Needed This. — 11/02/2026 [USA]
The Games have brought a much needed injection of awe, a welcome breather from a barrage of disturbing news.
Related: #Culture, #Sports
🇺🇸 New Gallup poll reveals depth of Americans' gloom about the future — 11/02/2026 [USA]
In 2025, only about 59% of Americans gave high ratings when asked to evaluate how good their life will be in about five years, the lowest annual measure since Gallup began asking this question almost ...
Related: #Society, #Economy
🇺🇸 Norwegian biathlete admits to cheating on his girlfriend in post-win interview — 10/02/2026 [USA]
Winning an Olympic medal spurred a Norwegian biathlete to shoot his shot … with his ex-girlfriend.
Related: #Sports, #Relationships
🇬🇧 ‘What I see in clinic is never a set of labels’: are we in danger of overdiagnosing mental illness? — 10/02/2026 [United Kingdom]
Our current approach to mental health labelling and diagnosis has brought benefits. But as a practising doctor, I am concerned that it may be doing more harm than goodSomeone </stron...
Related: #Healthcare, #Society
🇺🇸 Why do we Trust Chatbots? From Normative Principles to Behavioral Drivers — 10/02/2026 [USA]
arXiv:2602.08707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As chatbots increasingly blur the boundary between automated systems and human conversation, the foundations of trust in these systems warrant closer e...
Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Technology Regulation
🇺🇸 Can LLMs Truly Embody Human Personality? Analyzing AI and Human Behavior Alignment in Dispute Resolution — 10/02/2026 [USA]
arXiv:2602.07414v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to simulate human behavior in social settings such as legal mediation, negotiation, and dispute reso...
Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Dispute Resolution
🇬🇧 Norris confidence 'even higher' as he eyes title defence — 09/02/2026 [United Kingdom]
Lando Norris' confidence is "even higher" for the 2026 Formula 1 season after winning his first drivers' title last year, McLaren Racing chief executive officer Zak Brown says.
Related: #Motorsport, #Strategy
🇬🇧 ‘If I didn’t write about him, I’m afraid I might become him’: the making of Taxi Driver at 50 — 09/02/2026 [United Kingdom]
Screenwriter Paul Schrader talks the inspiration and legacy of Martin Scorsese’s incendiary New York nightmareIf <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/14/robert-de-niro-travis-b...
Related: #Cinema, #Culture
🇺🇸 Investigating the structure of emotions by analyzing similarity and association of emotion words — 09/02/2026 [USA]
arXiv:2602.06430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In the field of natural language processing, some studies have attempted sentiment analysis on text by handling emotions as explanatory or response v...
Related: #Technology, #Artificial Intelligence
🇺🇸 Personality as Relational Infrastructure: User Perceptions of Personality-Trait-Infused LLM Messaging — 09/02/2026 [USA]
arXiv:2602.06596v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Digital behaviour change systems increasingly rely on repeated, system-initiated messages to support users in everyday contexts. LLMs enable these me...
Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Digital Health
🇺🇸 I turned myself into an AI-generated deathbot - here's what I found — 08/02/2026 [USA]
A Cardiff University researcher recreated her own voice using a deathbot - but found it strange.
Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Ethics
🇺🇸 Mikaela Shiffrin arrives at her fourth Olympics hardly burdened by the ghosts of Beijing — 07/02/2026 [USA]
Skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin is leaning into the challenge of her fourth Olympics
Related: #Sports, #Olympics
🇺🇸 Enhancing Personality Recognition by Comparing the Predictive Power of Traits, Facets, and Nuances — 07/02/2026 [USA]
arXiv:2602.05650v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Personality is a complex, hierarchical construct typically assessed through item-level questionnaires aggregated into broad trait scores. Personality...
Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Data Science