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Specimen in a Petri Dish Part Two: Body Control as Political Power
Body Policing as Authoritarian Power: From Fascist Propaganda to TikTok Pipelines In Part One, we asked who gets to decide what a woman's body should look like. In Par...
Specimen in a Petri Dish: The Psychology of Public Body Policing
Why Society Feels Entitled to Comment on Women’s Bodies, and the Harm It Causes Jenna Ortega sat down to talk about her career. Within a day, the internet was only tal...
Be Cringe, Be Free: The Psychology of Refusing to Perform
Be Cringe, Be Free: Authenticity, Shame, and the Cost of Performing the Self "Be cringe, be free" sounds like a joke about dancing badly in public. Dr. Leslie Poston m...
Gotcha Culture: Why Catching an AI Cheater Feels So Good
The Psychology Behind AI Call-Outs and False Certainty Dr. Leslie Poston examines why people react with such gleeful certainty when an AI detector flags someone's writ...
Coded to Exhaustion: The Hidden Cost of Outsmarting the Algorithm
Algospeak and the Cost of Speaking Under Algorithmic Suppression When millions of creators have to say 'unalive' instead of suicide and use a grape emoji instead of ta...
