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Kaja Perina

Love's Loopy Logic
Encounters with the opposite sex skew our psyches in such a special way that reason and bias climb right into bed with each other. In this mode, it sometimes pays to deceive ourselves. Welcome to the paradoxical world of mating intelligence.
Tortured Love
Linda Carroll's unorthodox relationship with her famous mother and infamous daughter forced her to reevaluate love, loss and the control we have over the people we most want to protect.
Queer IQ: The Gay Couple's Advantage
Gay relationships are less mired in deception and perhaps even less prone to friction, according to multiple studies.
Final Analysis: Kiki Smith on Creative Struggle
International artist Kiki Smith talks about how letting go of ideas and visions can open up a new world of perception and art.
The PT Bookshelf: From Disaster to Murder
Book reviews on trauma, spiritual daredevils, and family horrors.
Graying Guru
Counterculture legend Ram Dass helps a generation cope with loss.
The Voynich Solution
A highly regular word and sentence structure could translate into a hoax for an ancient manuscript.
Check, Please
Gordon Rugg is an authority on the ways authorities get things wrong. He cracked a medieval cryptographic mystery with paper, pen and basic reasoning.
Introspection: Werner Herzog
German film-maker and his opposition to introspection and psychology.
Lemony Snicket: Reversal of Fortune
A talk with Daniel Handler, the creator of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Still At Risk
Psychotropic medications successfully combat symptoms of depression, anxiety and psychosis but fail spectacularly in reducing one crucial index of mental illness: suicide.
Covenant Marriage
A new type of marriage contract helps divorce-proof love.
Indexing Evil
Interviews forensic psychiatrist Michael Werner about depravity. Definition of depravity; Importance of a depravity scale in criminal cases; Role of psychiatry in criminal cases.
What Homework?
How do students cope with procrastination? They lie and hoodwink instructors.
Aliens and Science Collide
Two new publications empirically examine reports of alien abductions, recovered memory syndrome and cultural stereotypes. Statistical significance.
When CEOs Self-Destruct
Seeking a common thread in corner-office departures. Executive leadership, CEOs and white-collar crime.
Suicide Terrorism
Suicide bombers have distinctive personality traits.
DIET DETAILS: Who's choosing cigarettes? Junk food? Exercise?
Discusses several studies that are related to diet and psychology. Role of the desire for weight loss in the drive to smoke; Effect of breast-feeding on children's intelligence levels; Effect of oatmeals on the memory.
Truth Serum
Focuses on the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging in lie detection in forensic psychology. Impact of lying on the brain's activity.
A Theory of Everything
A shortage of omega-3 fatty acids explains schizophrenia and the development of our species, according to David Horrobin.

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