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"At least it's not worse" is meant as comfort, but psychologists who study what's become known as toxic positivity have found that skipping straight to the silver lining, before someone's felt heard, tends to make them talk less about what's actually bothering them, not more.

"At least it's not worse" is meant as comfort, but psychologists who study what's become known as toxic positivity have found that skipping straight to the silver lining, before someone's felt heard, tends to make them talk less about what's actually bothering them, not more.

Sep 4, 2026

A man who answers a direct question about his feelings with a joke isn't necessarily deflecting on purpose; humor is often the most practiced tool in an emotional vocabulary that was never given much else to work with.

A man who answers a direct question about his feelings with a joke isn't necessarily deflecting on purpose; humor is often the most practiced tool in an emotional vocabulary that was never given much else to work with.

Sep 3, 2026

Spanish-English bilinguals score as more outgoing, more agreeable, and more conscientious when they take a personality test in English than when they take the same test in Spanish, sometimes just a week apart

Language & Intelligence

Spanish-English bilinguals score as more outgoing, more agreeable, and more conscientious when they take a personality test in English than when they take the same test in Spanish, sometimes just a week apart

Sep 3, 2026

Decades of research on expressive writing have found that writing honestly about a difficult experience for even a few minutes a day can improve mood and some physical health measures afterward — especially when people put feelings into words instead of just replaying the experience in their heads.

Writing & Editing

Decades of research on expressive writing have found that writing honestly about a difficult experience for even a few minutes a day can improve mood and some physical health measures afterward — especially when people put feelings into words instead of just replaying the experience in their heads.

Sep 3, 2026

Benjamin Franklin won over a rival lawmaker in the 1730s by asking to borrow a book instead of doing him a favor, and psychologists later found the same trick makes total strangers like you more

Benjamin Franklin won over a rival lawmaker in the 1730s by asking to borrow a book instead of doing him a favor, and psychologists later found the same trick makes total strangers like you more

Sep 2, 2026

Sociologist Charles Derber's research on what he called conversational narcissism found that constantly steering a conversation back to yourself, even with something as small as "that reminds me of the time I—," quietly starves the other person of the attention their story needed.

Sociologist Charles Derber's research on what he called conversational narcissism found that constantly steering a conversation back to yourself, even with something as small as "that reminds me of the time I—," quietly starves the other person of the attention their story needed.

Sep 2, 2026