psychology

Homo economicus never existed but we still build policy like it does, and people keep getting hurt.

We engineered boredom out of existence and lost something we cannot get back from a screen.

The 'finding yourself' narrative assumes a fixed self waiting to be discovered. Identity is constructed, revised, and performed -- and that's more freeing than any gap year.

Every authoritarian movement sells a mythologized past. The longing is real. The history is fabricated.

We turned our bodies into dashboards and our lives into optimization problems. The numbers aren't setting us free.

Loneliness isn't a personal failing. It's what happens when you design cities for cars instead of people.

You can't grind your way into flow. That's the whole point. Why trying to manufacture flow defeats the purpose.

Humans require narrative. The question isn't whether you have a mythology, but which one.

Self-enhancement bias averages d=0.86. The Dunning-Kruger effect is misunderstood. Terror Management Theory explains why ego threats feel existential. What psychology actually knows about the stories we tell ourselves.