Shame internalized can lead to agony.
SPEAKING OF BURNING HUMANS — actual ones, as opposed to ones who existed only in Alex’s imagination — in the late 1970s, a left-wing Filipino journalist named Satur Ocampo was arrested in Manila by Pr...
Maybe it was the trying so hard to be normal that was making everyone so afraid they were going crazy.
Learning how to walk through walls was an ambitious but inexpensive enterprise.
I’d always wondered why there had been no mention of psychopaths in the DSM. It turned out, Spitzer told me, that there had indeed been a backstage schism—between Bob Hare and a sociologist named Lee...
It seems to me that all the people involved in the Hank and Adria story thought they were doing something good. But they only revealed that our imagination is so limited, our arsenal of potential resp...
In fact ever since I first learned about confirmation bias I’ve been seeing it everywhere. Everywhere.
In 1983 Colonel Burns wrote a poem in which he envisioned how his fledgling communications network might one day influence the world.Imagine the emergence of a new meta-culture.Imagine all kinds of pe...
I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read the DSM-IV when you're not a trained professional. Or maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label...
I suppose it’s no surprise that we feel the need to dehumanize the people we hurt—before, during, or after the hurting occurs. But it always comes as a surprise. In psychology it’s known as cognitive...
I suddenly feel with social media like I’m tiptoeing around an unpredictable, angry, unbalanced parent who might strike out at any moment,’ he said. ‘It’s horrible.’ He
I put a video out, Alex said, a message to Trump. And then two days later he lays out the case. It’s like sending up the Bat Signal. Was this true? It seemed unlikely, but when I got home I discovered...
He blamed psychopaths for the brutal excesses of capitalism itself, that the system at its cruelest was a manifestation of a few people’s anomalous amygdalae.
Feeling no remorse must be a blessing when all you have are your memories
Feedback is an engineering principle, Adam's email to me ended. 'And all engineering is devoted to trying to keep the thing you are building stable.
Facebook is where you lie to your friends, Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers.
But surely stock-market psychopaths can’t be as bad as serial-killer psychopaths,’ I said. ‘Serial killers ruin families,’ shrugged Bob. ‘Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economi...
Bad liars always think they're good at it. (quoting Michael Moynihan)
As soon as the victim steps out of the pact by refusing to feel ashamed, he said, the whole thing crumbles.
As somebody back then wrote, Facebook is where you lie to your friends, Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers.