“I walked into a 3 Michelin-Star restaurant not knowing who or what to expect. Then I saw a grey-haired Asian man at the bar. We had an expensive dinner and he slipped me a grand. ‘There’s more in my hotel room,’ he said.” The anecdote above may sound like the…

George Floyd’s death re-kindled the urgency of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement but also, unfortunately, performative activism (PA). Hundreds of people marched for those brutally killed by police officers, others posted aesthetic infographics on Instagram. Activism suddenly became the “ 2020 summer trend” and that mixed with herd mentality…

From online shopping to learning a language, we can do anything we want from the comfort of our home. Technology is revolutionizing the world around us, making our lives convenient, however, it does come at a cognitive cost — our attention. The mere presence of our smartphones has shown to…

Love is sometimes used interchangeably with intimacy, passion, romance, infatuation, lust, commitment, partnership, friendship, trust, attraction, sex, and much more; when in fact each one may only be some component of love. For the sake of this article, think of love as something entirely different than all of this. Actually…

Love has had a presence in this world since humans basically evolved. But over time, this universally experienced human drive has changed. Not only has it changed, but it has also been interpreted and expressed differently in different cultures. There are seven universal emotions, anger, contempt, disgust, enjoyment, fear, sadness…

Midsommar: Cults, Conformity, and Obedience The Mind And Emotional Control of Totalism Abstract There are approximately 3,000 cults in the United States with 300,000 to 3 million members (Singer & Lalich, 1995). Globally, this number is exponentially higher. Cult groups can be defined as a group with a common, extreme, ideological system devoted to a…

You have a bad dog. No, this dog isn’t just bad. It’s horrible. But, this dog has been with you for a very long time. It first bit you when you were only 13. That is when you knew it had teeth. Sharp, flesh ripping teeth. The dog follows you…