“No…no.. what have I done-” I held my sister’s limp body with my crimson covered hands. No. No, I hadn’t done this. It wasn’t me. It was… him. The killer was right there. Where’d he go? I looked back down…
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Moumita
Why do we hold onto our opinions? Why do we make decisions that in hindsight are completely ridiculous decisions? It’s mostly because of cognitive biases. Cognitive biases are “mental shortcuts”, they are patterns that our brain has come to understand…
Imagine a world where littering is criminalized and faced with heavy jail time. Makes you think about how common and generally normalized littering is, no? The broken windows theory by social scientists James Q Wilson and George Kelling, brings forth…
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I’m Medha Moumita, an A-level student with a passion for unraveling the complexities of the world around us. Through my writing, I explore how the rules, systems, and decisions that govern society shape human behavior and drive change.