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Advertising Manipulation: Are Ads Hijacking Your Brain?

Advertising manipulation is more powerful than most of us want to admit. From Edward Bernays's 1929 "torches of freedom" stunt to today's behavioral targeting algorithms, ads are engineered to exploit the brain's deepest vulnerabilities. Here's what's really going on — and why "I don't fall for ads" might be the biggest lie you tell yourself.

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Cute Aggression: Why Do We Want to Squish Baby Animals?

What Is Cute Aggression? Let's all just admit it. When we look at baby animals (and we can throw some human babies in there too), a strange feeling stirs inside us. We want to bite them, squeeze them, crush them! This feeling is known as cute aggression, or sevimli saldırganlık in Turkish. Don't worry, you're…