Research Archive
Cognitive bias, social dynamics, and the subconscious mechanisms most people never interrogate. Decoded.
The decision was made in the first two seconds. Everything after — the pros-and-cons list, the research, the deliberation — was your brain's post-hoc justification engine working overtime. Here's why rationality is largely retrospective, and what that means for how you actually make choices.
The pyramid that's been printed in every textbook for 70 years was never empirically validated. What actually drives human motivation is messier, more recursive, and far more interesting.
Attachment theory tells you your style. But nobody maps the invisible agreements people negotiate without ever speaking them aloud — and what happens when both sides assumed different terms.
Intelligence doesn't protect against motivated reasoning — it just makes you better at defending the conclusion you already wanted. The uncomfortable data on why reasoning ability and belief accuracy are nearly uncorrelated.
People are forming parasocial bonds with language models and calling it therapy. The clinical picture is more alarming than the tech discourse is willing to admit — and the mechanism is entirely predictable.