Laura Kennedy

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Laura Kennedy is a writer with a PhD in the philosophy of psychology. She is the author of Peak Notions on Substack.

Everything Articles

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Mini Philosophy

The “rawdogging” trend: A new term for an ancient practice

TikTok gave an old practice a terrible name. Neuroscience explains why it actually works.

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Thinking

The illusion of consensus is powerful. Here’s why you should fight it.

What a 1950s experiment reveals about conformity in the age of the internet.

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Thinking

From “woke” to “traumatic”: How useful terms become empty buzzwords

When a word comes to mean everything, it means nothing.

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