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Nato Lagidze

Nato began writing for Ideapod in 2021 and now serves as its Editor-in-Chief, guiding the publication’s editorial direction around independent thinking, self-awareness, and ways people make sense of their lives. With an academic background in psychology, she investigates emotional bonds people form with places. She dreams of creating an uplifting documentary one day, inspired by her experiences with strangers.

Eating alone in a restaurant asks for a kind of security most people underestimate, because the empty chair opposite is very hard not to read as a verdict

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In 2010, researchers coined the acronym WEIRD for the narrow slice of humanity most psychology research draws its participants from, a slice that’s 96 percent of the field’s samples but just 12 percent of the world’s population, and I’m part of it

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Regret research suggests many decisions are less about the outcome than about managing a future feeling, and that changes what ‘choice’ means

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Researchers tested Adele, Enya, and Coldplay against an unknown instrumental track, and it won on relaxation, just not for the reason the viral version of this story claims

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People who grew up in the 1960s and 70s learned that sorry was said once, quietly, and in person, and the idea of typing it into a phone can feel like performing something private in public

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Constraints produce better creative work than unlimited freedom, and the research has been saying so long enough that the surprise is how rarely anyone acts on it

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The psychological term for wanting what you were trained to want is introjected regulation, and research suggests most people spend their lives acting on it without knowing it has a name

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Mixed feelings are not confusion, they are the only accurate response to a life that contains more than one true thing at once

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