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  1. People With Multiple Personalities Are Changing Psychologists’ Idea of the SelfDissociative identity disorder, in which people can have multiple personalities, raises the question: What makes a person who they are?
    By Emma Young
  2. book excerpt
    Why I Risked My Life to Drive in Saudi ArabiaSaudi activist Manal al-Sharif shares the story behind the Women to Drive movement.
    By Manal al-Sharif
  3. performance art
    Be Better at Life by Thinking of Yourself LessThe motivational power of self-transcendence.
    By Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness
  4. When Extreme Déjà Vu Destroys Your Sense of Reality“I routinely struggle to discern the difference between lived events and dreams, between memories, hallucinations and the products of my imagination.”
    By Pat Long
  5. big data
    How to Predict If a Borrower Will Pay You BackPeople who use “God” and “promise” are more likely to default.
    By Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
  6. The Perks of Talking to YourselfIt can be a sign of high cognitive functioning.
    By Paloma Mari-Beffa
  7. What Malpractice Lawsuits Can Teach Us About Coping With Uncertainty“Sometimes there is simply nothing and no one to blame.”
    By Elizabeth L. Silver
  8. book excerpt
    Leaving Home, When Your Home Is a ConventAnd your dad is a pantsless, gun-toting Catholic priest.
    By Patricia Lockwood
  9. To Make Better Decisions, Ask Yourself ‘What,’ Not ‘Why’’What’ questions help us understand ourselves.
    By Tasha Eurich
  10. Picky Eater? You Might Be a SupertasterOn the other end of the spectrum, the same thing goes for people who are super-adventurous with food.
    By Bob Holmes
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    What We Lose When Sex Is All About DangerParanoia rules on today’s college campus.
    By Laura Kipnis
  12. Kids Are Better Friends When They Spend Time Away From ScreensTaking an extended phone break is enough to make them more empathetic.
    By Adam Alter
  13. Sleeping Through the Night Is a Relatively New InventionShorter chunks of shut-eye used to be more normal than one long, uninterrupted snooze.
    By Benjamin Reiss
  14. My Mother’s MurderShe disappeared when I was four. It was years before I understood why.
  15. The 1930s Scientist Who Popularized a Terrifying Brain SurgeryA brief, unsettling history of the lobotomy.
    By Jennifer Wright
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    Self-Empowerment Is Just Another Word for NarcissismHow contemporary feminism has lost its way.
    By Jessa Crispin
  17. first person
    When Good Christian Girls Need Planned ParenthoodThey were there for me when no one else was.
    By Sara Novic
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    How to Murder Your LifeI was a slutty and self-loathing downtown party girl fellatrix rushing to ruin.
    By Cat Marnell
  19. Your Emotions Are More Malleable Than You ThinkHere’s how to turn your stress into excitement.
    By Ian Robertson
  20. book excerpt
    My First Day Microdosing With LSDThe drug was a new treatment for my mood disorder — and the first problem was how to buy it.
    By Ayelet Waldman
  21. abortion
    4 Women on Having Abortions Before They Were Legal“I just remember thinking, I’m going to get through this.”
    By Claire Landsbaum
  22. science of us
    Remembering Childhood Trauma That Never HappenedMemory is incredibly malleable – which means that it’s not that difficult to falsely convince someone they experienced something horrific.
    By Eric Vance
  23. What Happened When Schools Tried to Bribe Students Into Getting Good GradesMoney-as-motivator is never as straightforward as it seems like it should be.
    By Claudia Hammond
  24. first person
    On Being the Media’s Token Muslim GirlIf I was a Muslim woman with darker skin, I doubt I’d be getting as much airtime as I am right now.
    By Amani
  25. The Problem With Positive Psychology: You Can’t Always Make Yourself HappyThere’s such a thing as taking too much responsibility for your own happiness.
    By Ruth Whippman
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    The Single Greatest Moment in Black-Women Television HistoryAn ode to Viola Davis and How to Get Away With Murder.
    By Phoebe Robinson
  27. You Can Write Your Way Out of an Emotional Funk. Here’s How.It takes 20 minutes.
    By Susan David
  28. A Neuroscientist Explains Why You’re Terrible With NamesIn a purely objective sense, a person’s face and name are, by and large, unrelated.
    By Dean Burnett
  29. The Internet Isn’t Making Us Dumber — It’s Making Us More ‘Meta-Ignorant’We’re less aware of how much we don’t know.
    By William Poundstone
  30. Diarrhea Is the Wartime Enemy No One MentionsSometimes, keeping soldiers safe means understanding their bowel movements.
    By Mary Roach
  31. women at work
    How Three Women Found Unexpected True CallingsA bricklayer, policewoman, and subway conductor discover passion for their work.
    By StoryCorps
  32. advice
    How to Politely Have an Amazing ThreesomeTake care of the following and you’ve got very little to be afraid of.
    By Amy Rose Spiegel
  33. How to Be a Stepmom to the Son of Your Ex and His Dead WifeStep one: Don’t press charges when the kid crashes your car.
    By Lauren Weedman
  34. thanks for sharing
    Diary of a Sperm DonorA gay man finds spirituality through giving.
    By Mike Albo
  35. A Tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s StyleAn excerpt from Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
    By Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
  36. first person
    Losing My Grandfather Meant Losing Part of My HeritageHe was one of the only living ties I had to Puerto Rico, and now he was gone.
    By Alida Nugent
  37. book excerpt
    The Powerful Appeal of Modern Witchcraft — Even for a SkepticA writer immerses herself in the world of Paganism.
    By Alex Mar
  38. marriage equality
    The Unexpected Personal Connection Behind the DOMA DecisionIn an excerpt from her new memoir, lawyer Roberta Kaplan describes how she first crossed paths with Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer.
    By Roberta Kaplan and Lisa Dickey
  39. tips
    How to Get Out of Any Party ConversationA helpful guide.
    By Josh Gondelman and Joe Berkowitz
  40. self portrait
    Return Ticket: The Memories on My BookshelfRereading is like rewriting ourselves, reinventing the past.
    By Valeria Luiselli
  41. self portrait
    What I Left Out of My MemoirWhen she wrote her book, Mac McClelland omitted one tiny detail. Should she have?
    By Mac McClelland
  42. self portrait
    Eve’s Hollywood: The Sex Life of a ’70s ‘It’ GirlThe memoirs of Eve Babitz, a scandalous scenester of the ‘60s and ‘70s, are being reissued.  
    By Eve Babitz
  43. sa-sm
    Mary-Louise Parker: I Want to Apologize to the Man in the LoinclothAn excerpt from her forthcoming memoir.
    By Mary-Louise Parker
  44. perception
    What the Justice System Gets Wrong About Eyewitness Testimony“At the police station, she had looked upon the true perpetrator and picked out an innocent man.”
    By Adam Benforado
  45. sleep
    The Waking Nightmare of Restless Leg Syndrome“Within the RLS community there is so much division and frantic cure-seeking that people, already sleep-deprived, tend to lose their grip on the real problem.”
    By RM Vaughan
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    That Dark, Perverse Stare: Sex and Shame After AbuseA sexual history.
    By Samantha Matthews As told to David Shields
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    What It Was Like to Visit Yves Saint Laurent in His StudioIn her new book, Kate Betts describes covering the designer as a young reporter at WWD. 
    By Kate Betts
  48. memory
    The Science of ‘Accidental’ Joke-Stealing and PlagiarismExperiments show why it isn’t always the joke stealer’s fault.
    By Douwe Draaisma
  49. creativity
    It’s Healthy to Let Your Mind WanderIt can also help stimulate creativity.
    By Michael C. Corballis
  50. Revisiting the Show That Launched Alexander McQueen’s CareerA new biography documents his 1995 spring collection, inspired by The Birds.
    By Dana Thomas
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