Human Behavior

Did you know that we’re actually living in the safest times in human history? At least for First World countries, this is absolutely true. Then why is it that you and many people may feel a subtle unease when living life, a tapping noise of anxieties happening in the background in your day-to-day? It’s almost like our society is scared. It is odd, isn’t it? How is it possible to be living in the safest times in human history yet at the same exact time be so scared? Barry Glassner, a renowned sociologist and author, quotes that:“We are living in the most fear-mongering time in human history and the main

No matter how big the life problem is, everyone says, “Don’t worry… everything is going to be okay.” We have all heard this sentence once or many times in our life. But have you ever wondered why we say it? Why do we say everything is going to be okay when we are not sure of that? Is there any benefit to doing this? Is it actually good for you to console yourself? Today, let’s talk about it. It is said that in our body there live two people. It is seen in many places and known as Yin and Yang or by many other names. These two parts of

In 1967, British philosopher Philippa Foot created a precursor to our self-driving car conundrum. The famous scenario she came up with is known as “the trolley problem.” Imagine there’s a runaway train hurtling down a train track. Directly ahead of the train, there are five people on the track. Now, imagine that you are too far away to help those five people, but right next to you, there’s a lever that can divert the train onto another track. If you divert the train, the five people will be saved. But here’s the catch. There’s another person on the second track. Now you’re faced with a dilemma. You can either do

Living in the city, we are always surrounded by so much noise and shouting; it’s almost frightening. I live in the city, and sometimes the noise is so bad that I feel like I’m going crazy. But the blog I want to write about today is not sound pollution; rather, the opposite of it. It’s about Silence. Silence is something all of us like. We want to be in a quiet place always. That’s why noise-canceling headphones sales have gone way up over the years and are still growing. Everyone likes to be in their bubble and not listen to other people. And so, we like to be in a

We’ve all experienced those moments at some point in our lives: offering a handshake while the other person offers a fist bump, forgetting someone’s name when they clearly know yours, not having anything to say and realizing you left your phone at home so you can’t be distracted by it, getting caught staring at a stranger, starting a conversation with someone you don’t know in a bathroom, someone oversharing and telling a group too much information, overhearing a couple breaking up, noticing food in someone’s teeth but not telling them, and now it’s been too long and bringing it up would be weird. This emotion is what we know as