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Topic: human psychology

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America's lethargy crisis

Nicole Karlis
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The biological purpose of crying

Nicole Karlis
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Your job can make you a bad parent

Adam Grant
Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love by Zack McDermott (Little, Brown and Company/KevinCarlin)

Bouncing back after a breakdown

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Kid Rock (AP/Robb D. Cohen)

Celebrities stalk election day

Max Cea
Donald Trump; Philip Zimbardo (AP/Mary Altaffer/Paul Sakuma/Photo montage by Salon)

Trump's prison experiment

Chauncey DeVega
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A body-morphing strain of BDSM

Carrie Weisman

Heartbreak is real

Kevin Carlin
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Does fascism have morality?

Paul Rosenberg
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We're choosing to be stressed

Scott Timberg
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The secret science of empathy

Scott Timberg

Katie McDonough
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