Wealth was supposed to make India less religious. Instead the rich started paying more without praying more. What that money actually buys — and what it costs the rest of us.
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I write about the psychology of how people love, argue, and explain themselves to each other — and I read the papers before I write the post. The hook is usually something ordinary: a rain scene in a Hindi film, a fight about a surprise gift, a line somebody swore was obvious.
Then I go looking for whether the evidence agrees. Sometimes it does. More often it says something stranger and more useful than the advice built on top of it. When the literature runs out — and on the fun questions it runs out fast — that gets said in the post, in the same size type as everything else, rather than buried in a footnote.
Wealth was supposed to make India less religious. Instead the rich started paying more without praying more. What that money actually buys — and what it costs the rest of us.
Why prosperity secularises the West but reconfigures religion in India — a theoretical proposal, with evidence, competing explanations, and the conditions under which it should be rejected.
Every rain-drenched confession, every airport sprint, every three-minute ballad about love that "cannot be controlled" — turns out it's not just melodrama. It's a survival strategy, and researchers can show their work.
Relational mobility, self-construal theory, and affect valuation theory explain why commitment looks so different depending on where you grew up.
No digests, no funnels, no course. One essay when it's finished, with the papers linked at the bottom.
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