For all our mythologizing, the margins can be painful and some people are there because they have no choice.
Facebook is where you lie to your friends, Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers.
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As a group they tend to be more charming than most people, she said. They have no warm emotions of their own but will study the rest of us. They're the boss or the coworker who likes to make other peo...
All violence {is} a person's attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.
We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in i...
«He perdido el buen nombre, la parte inmortal de mi ser, y solo me queda lo más bestial.»
Which is why she tried to join the RAF, so she could obtain a socially respectable opportunity to gratify her homicidal urges. So
This was a man palpably simulating crying, which made the moment at once awkward, surreal, and quite disturbing. Our
They saw how well behaved I was, and decided it meant I could only behave well in the environment of a psychiatric hospital and it proved I was mad. I
The madness business is filled with people like Tony, reduced to their maddest edges.
In our line of work the more humiliated a person is, the more viral the story tends to go. Shame can factor large in the life of a journalist—the personal avoidance of it and the professional bestowin...
If you’re beginning to feel worried that you may be a psychopath, if you recognize some of those traits in yourself, if you’re feeling a creeping anxiety about it, that means you are not one.
Character. And I’ll tell you, it outweighed anything I’d ever done. What had she done? I ask. Shoplifting, says Tam. There is a silence. People have their own little guilt trips, says Tam. They look a...
You're standing on an escalator and you're watching the people go past on the opposite escalator. If you could climb inside their brains you would see we aren't all the same. We aren't all good people...
You remain with the person you've just been yelling at until the resentments fizzle. That's how wounds heal.
Why is the world so unfair? Why all that savage economic injustice, those brutal wars, the everyday corporate cruelty? The answer: psychopaths. That part of the brain that doesn’t function right.
What they find is that there are anomalies in the way these individuals process material that has emotional implications. That there’s this dissociation between the linguistic meaning of words and the...
Well, he said, the downside of having no barriers between doctors and patients was that everyone became a patient. There
This was everyday life on social media, each side lurching toward mockery and attack — fanning the flames of the divisive chaos from which Trump, the Twitter candidate, had risen.