Modern Madness
The Luminal Standard | Why Bio-Industrial Lighting is Essential
"To control the light is to control the frequency of the mind." - The Luminal Directive Bio-Industrial Lighting is the use of high-intensity, frequency-specific light to optimize neural performance. Standard…
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The ‘I’ve Come Too Far!’ Brain | Why We Double Down on Losing Bets (Sunk Cost Fallacy)
The Sunk Cost Fallacy is the logical error of continuing a behavior…
The ‘They Must Be Right!’ Brain | Why You Agree with the Group, Even When You Know It’s Wrong (The Asch Effect)
The Asch Effect describes the tendency of people to yield to group…
The ‘New Normal’ Brain | Why Happiness Doesn’t Last (Hedonic Adaptation)
"We are just as happy as we make up our minds to…
The ‘Don’t Look!’ Brain | Why Trying to Hide Secrets Makes Them Viral (The Streisand Effect)
The Streisand Effect is a social phenomenon that occurs when an attempt…
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The ‘New Normal’ Brain | Why Happiness Doesn’t Last (Hedonic Adaptation)
"We are just as happy as we make up our…
The ‘Tribe-First’ Brain | Why Smart People Believe Irrational Things (Identity Protective Cognition)
"We are not primarily rational; we are primarily rationalizing." —…
The ‘Karma-Police’ Brain | Why You Blame Victims for Their Misfortune (The Just-World Hypothesis)
The Just-World Hypothesis is the cognitive bias that leads people…
The ‘Self-Sabotage’ Loop | Why You Know What to Do But Can’t Do It (Akrasia)
"Knowing what is good is not enough; we must also…
The ‘I’ve Come Too Far!’ Brain | Why We Double Down on Losing Bets (Sunk Cost Fallacy)
The Sunk Cost Fallacy is the logical error of continuing…
The ‘They Must Be Right!’ Brain | Why You Agree with the Group, Even When You Know It’s Wrong (The Asch Effect)
The Asch Effect describes the tendency of people to yield…
The ‘It Was Better Back Then’ Brain | Why Your Memories Always Look Rosier Than Reality (Rosy Retrospection)
Rosy Retrospection is the psychological bias that makes us remember…
The ‘They Happen Together!’ Brain | Why We Think Correlation is Causation (The Cum Hoc Fallacy)
The Cum Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc fallacy occurs when one…
The ‘Gotta Have It Now’ Brain | Why You Panic-Buy Limited-Edition Stuff (The Scarcity Principle)
The Scarcity Principle is a cognitive bias that makes people…
The ‘Shut Up, You’re Dumb’ Brain | Why We Attack the Person, Not the Argument (Ad Hominem)
The Ad Hominem Fallacy is a logical fallacy where an…