Monthly Archives: March 2020

The Science of Likability: 27 Studies to Master Charisma, Attract Friends, Captivate People, and Take Advantage of Human Psychology

Patrick King writes: * Memories have long been found to be context-dependent, first by Godden and Baddeley in 1975 in their breakthrough publication “Context-Dependent Memory in Two Natural Environments: On Land and Underwater,” which means memories are heavily linked to … Continue reading

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Normal Marital Sadism

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/experts/david-schnarch-phd https://crucibletherapy.com/about/david-schnarch https://passionatemarriage.com/ David Schnarch writes in his book Passionate Marriage: * When we talk about developing a fuller, deeper understanding of marriage, many people automatically think of unconscious feelings or repressed experiences. We’ve grown accustomed to looking at life’s … Continue reading

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Popular: Finding Happiness and Success in a World That Cares Too Much About the Wrong Kinds of Relationships

Psychologist Mitch Prinstein writes in 2017: …one of the strongest predictors of soldiers’ functioning in the military was how popular they were in primary school. In fact, childhood popularity predicted soldiers’ behavior even after accounting for every other factor that … Continue reading

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Liberal Democracy

Paul Gottfried writes in this 2017 book: * WHEN I WAS A YOUNG FACULTY MEMBER at Rockford College forty years ago, my divisional chairman, who was a devout disciple of Leo Strauss, once complained that a colleague he had just … Continue reading

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Revisions and Dissents: Essays

Paul Gottfried writes in this 2017 book: A classical or essentialist Right is hard to find in the contemporary Western world, where journalists and other assorted intellectuals rush to denounce its bearers—or even partial bearers—as “fascists.” That may be one … Continue reading

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