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Every week we publish new articles and add books to the library. Here's everything that landed this week.
Emotional contagion: you unconsciously absorb the psychological states of people around you
Why emotions spread without words In 1993, Elaine Hatfield, John Cacioppo, and Richard Rapson published a framework that explains something most people have experienced but never had precise language for: being around an anxious person…
Lost Connections
Johann Hari
The resentment that entrepreneurs quietly develop toward their own business is rarely about the business itself — it is about a gradual disconnection from the reasons they started in the first place. Hari's research identifies nine distinct causes of that disconnection, rooted not in personal failure but in structural and psychological conditions that entrepreneurship creates almost by default. Reading this book after the article gives you a way to name exactly what is happening beneath the surface — and more importantly, a research-backed map for rebuilding the sense of meaning that got buried under obligation. Most entrepreneurs who have reached this point have already tried motivation tactics. This book explains why those don't work, and what does.
Emotional contagion: you unconsciously absorb the psychological states of people around you
The neuroscience of automatic emotional transfer — and why your emotional state is an organisational performance variable
The psychological phenomenon of 'anticipatory anxiety' — suffering from things that haven't happened
Why imagined threats often feel worse than real ones — and what the neuroscience shows about why
Why your emotional triggers are the most valuable map to your unresolved psychological material
How disproportionate reactions stop being problems to manage and start being information to read
Why you can feel lonely in a room full of people who love you (the psychology of emotional isolation)
The distinction between social loneliness and emotional loneliness — and why the first can be abundant while the second goes unmet
The psychological reason you feel guilty when you rest and anxious when you work
Why the guilt and the anxiety are two expressions of the same underlying mechanism — and what to…
Why the emotions you refuse to feel don't disappear — they drive your behaviour from the shadows (like Batman)
The neuroscience and psychology of unconscious emotional processing — and the specific behavioural patterns that reveal what you…
Why you emotionally overreact to small things when it's never about the small thing
The neuroscience of emotional flooding — and why the mildly critical Slack message occasionally reduces you to ash
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