The year of living outrageously
Americans are more stressed now than at any time since April, or the early days of the COVID pandemic last year. This is the conclusion of an opinion poll recently …
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Victimhood Inc
Thanks to Israeli scientists we now have a psychological profile of a large section of our population and the body politic: A new personality construct has been defined that describes …
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Wired left, right and centre
An interesting neurological study indicates that partisans and non-partisans – or perhaps the ideological and non-ideological folk – are two different species. OK, not quite, but they do think differently: …
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We’re fine but the world is going to hell
According to Gallup, Donald Trump has been Making America Happy – or Happier – Again. Well, of course they don’t frame the issue like that, but the results of their …
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Baracking for the ladies
Obama at a private function in Singapore recently: “Now women, I just want you to know; you are not perfect, but what I can say pretty indisputably is that you’re …
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Racist eyes have it
When people say that members of other races all look the same to them, are they just being lazily racist or is there some truth behind the observation? Commonly referred …
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No Good News From Anywhere
Is it the media or is it us? It’s been a long running question at The Daily Chrenk and previous to that at the Chrenkoff blog. Bad news rules. Some …
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Beware of female trolls
The science is settled: women tend to be more polite and nicer on the internet than men. Most trolls who engage in anti-social behaviour online – harassment, bullying, abuse – …
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Was Jesus a psychopath?
Yes, according to Oxford University psychologist, Dr Kevin Dutton, who applied a standard measure of psychopathic traits, the Psychopathic Personality Inventory (Revised), to various historical figures – as well as …
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