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Depressed individuals take less joy in surprising good outcomes

A study conducted on college students in Florida found that individuals with depression experience less joy from surprising positive outcomes compared to non-depressed individuals. When these students received better grades on a midterm exam than they expected, their positive emotional…

How should we treat beings that might be sentient?

If you aren’t yet worried about the multitude of ways you inadvertently inflict suffering onto other living creatures, you will be after reading The Edge of Sentience by Jonathan Birch. And for good reason. Birch, a Professor of Philosophy at…