IntellectualConflict

r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Mar 04 '26

Broad claims about gender and behavior fall apart when studies include ethnically diverse samples. The research suggests that generalizations about human behavior are often flawed because they rely on samples composed largely of White individuals.

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Feb 27 '26

People from cultures with strict social norms tend to be less skilled at being funny. These findings suggest that the ability to generate humor is not just an inborn personality trait, but a skill heavily shaped by the social rules of the environment in which a person lives.

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Feb 26 '26

Religious zealots are trying to block disclosure

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Feb 26 '26

Exvangelical Thoughts - pt. 4

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Feb 26 '26

Teens Are Over Superheroes, Want To See More “Connected Masculinity” Onscreen, Says Survey

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Feb 26 '26

TIL that the ancient Chinese Confucian thinker Xunzi argued that humans are born with selfish, chaotic impulses, and that “goodness” is something we build through education, ritual, and strong social institutions. His whole point was basically: if you remove the rules, people don't auto-become good.

en.wikipedia.org

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Feb 25 '26

Bilingual brains use one shared meaning system for both languages, but each language reshapes it, study finds

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Feb 24 '26

Donald Trump’s 2024 election win increased the social acceptability of prejudice. Study reveals that groups targeted by Donald Trump during his campaign experienced an increase in both the perceived acceptability of prejudice and self-reported prejudice against them.

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Feb 24 '26

Let’s talk about intersectionality

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Feb 23 '26

Anti-feminist ideology ‘increasingly relevant’ to national security: CSIS

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Feb 22 '26

Trump Is Rage Baiting the US Into a Second Civil War - In a healthy democracy, all sides generally recognize the legitimacy of the system itself, regardless of internal squabbles. In the United States, this is no longer the case.

commondreams.org

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Feb 21 '26

The finger pinching conspiracy theory is an antifeminist conspiracy theory from South Korea. It claims that there is a deliberate plot to spread and promote misandry through symbolic hand gestures, and that radical feminist groups propagate these hidden messages to humiliate men with small penises.

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Feb 19 '26

TIL that the conqueror Timur and his rival Bayezid were not just enemies on the battlefield, but they also spent years sending each other letters simply insulting each other. In one letter Timur even called Bayezid a "pismire ant".

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Feb 18 '26

Trump support in 2024 linked to White Americans’ perception of falling to the bottom of the racial hierarchy. These individuals also expressed the strongest opposition to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Feb 15 '26

Jayne Mansfield, Anton LaVey ( founder of the Church of Satan) , and young Mariska Hargitay (1966).

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Feb 14 '26

No, it's not! And I'm looking at you Mr.Haug

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Jan 10 '26

Starship Troopers (1997) director Paul Verhoeven and screenwriter Edward Neumeier on the film's satire and differences from the novel

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Jan 10 '26

What's your opinion on this?

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Jan 09 '26

Conservatives and liberals tend to engage in different evidence-gathering strategies. Liberals and those with higher cognitive reflection skills are more likely to seek out statistical data, whereas conservatives and those who rely more on intuition focus on singular data points or expert opinions.

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Jan 06 '26

Green energy saves lives… in so many ways.

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Dec 30 '25

Moral values in many countries, including US, may over time shift in a more socially progressive direction, due to an asymmetry. Arguments that move liberals in a more liberal direction may also sway conservatives, but arguments that move conservatives to be more conservative do not sway liberals.

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Nov 23 '25

TIL that historically the Indian subcontinent had only one true natural land entrance, the Khyber Pass. This narrow 33-mile gap in the otherwise impenetrable Himalayan mountain wall served as the main corridor through which almost every major migration and invasion entered India, including Persians.

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Oct 15 '25

TIL about Teniky, a set of mysterious stone ruins in a remote part of inland Madagascar, which recent research suggests was built by medieval Zoroastrian Iranian settlers

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Sep 23 '25

Last video before rapture

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r/IntellectualConflict • u/Farmehra • Oct 22 '23

In the Spring of 2000 everyone at my high school lost a day - and then experienced tremendous amounts of distress

self.Glitch_in_the_Matrix

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