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  1. excerpts
    Read Kris Van Assche’s First Interview Since Leaving DiorThe designer opens up to Document Journal.
    By Emilia Petrarca
  2. 7 Totally-Not-Made-Up Things a Brown Person Has Heard at the OfficeAn excerpt from artist Maria Qamar’s debut book, Trust No Aunty.
    By Maria Qamar
  3. 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
  4. virtual reality
    Meet Virtual You: How Your VR Self Influences Your Real-Life SelfYour avatar can affect your behavior in the “real” world in some surprising ways. 
    By Amy Cuddy
  5. We’re Testing Children on the Wrong ThingsAre we measuring what we want to measure in education?
    By Anya Kamenetz
  6. relationships
    People Overestimate How Much Everyone Else CheatsAnd this incorrect belief could affect our own decision on whether or not to cheat on a partner.
    By Gwendolyn Seidman
  7. Your Self-Esteem Affects When and How You FlirtIs it smarter to think of the potential costs or potential rewards?
    By Lisa Hoplock
  8. marketing
    A Soda Bottle’s Shape Tricks You Into Buying ItIt’s a concept psychologists call physical fluency, and marketers are taking note. 
    By Sian Beilock
  9. relationships
    Going on a Diet With Your Partner Probably Won’t Go So WellPeople are less confident in their own goals when they see others succeeding at those same goals. 
    By Jennifer Jill Harman
  10. social psychology
    Grumpy People Get the Details RightThe surprising upside of negative emotions.
    By Todd Kashdan and Robert Biswas-Diener
  11. relationships
    Please Don’t Drag Your Partner on A Boring Date NightNo one benefits from this. 
    By Benjamin Le
  12. Modern Medicine Changed the Way We Die, and Not Always for the BetterAn excerpt from Atul Gawande’s new book, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.
    By Atul Gawande
  13. excerpts
    Memoirs of a Non-Prom Queen“The ugly duckling myth is sentimental”: An excerpt from The Essential Ellen Willis.
    By Ellen Willis
  14. great projects
    Read an Excerpt From Prada’s New International Literary JournalEvery short story features eye glasses.
    By Julie Ma