Carlin Flora
Journalist, Freelance
Carlin Flora is a journalist and former features editor at Psychology Today. Her work has appeared in Discover and Scientific American Mind, among others. She is the author of Friendfluence (2013).
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Personality
Indescribable you
Can novelists or psychologists better capture the strange multitude of realities in every human self?
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Love and friendship
Bad friends
Even the best of friends can fill you with tension and make you sick. Why does friendship so readily turn toxic?
Carlin Flora
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Personality
How luck works
You’re at the casino and you win big – a lucky fluke, divine intervention or inner smarts? The answer’s against the odds
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Childhood and adolescence
Praise them!
Everyone thinks that too much praise can turn children into entitled monsters but the science isn’t nearly that simple
Carlin Flora