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Lachlan Brown
Contributor at Scandinavia Standard
- 50 stories
- Writing since 2026
Lachlan Brown is a writer and the founder of Hack Spirit. He writes about psychology, relationships and personal growth, with a practical focus on how people think, connect and build more meaningful lives.
Signature pieces
- + Psychology A study of more than 15,000 young adults found that frequent socialising was linked to greater life satisfaction for… Aug 20, 2026
- + Psychology Norway is routinely ranked among the world’s happiest countries, but a 2025 study uncovered a striking generational… Aug 20, 2026
- + Travel Scandinavia is still rebounding from the immense weight of Ice Age glaciers that disappeared thousands of years ago Aug 19, 2026
All stories
- Aug 19, 2026 Self-respect and self-esteem are not the same thing + Psychology
- Aug 18, 2026 Researchers followed 260 Finnish children for eight years, tracking their screen use from childhood into adolescence + Lifestyle
- Aug 18, 2026 For some highly intelligent people, loneliness may have less to do with being alone than with feeling intellectually… + Lifestyle
- Aug 16, 2026 IQ scores rose by roughly three points every decade throughout the 20th century, then reversed + Psychology
- Aug 15, 2026 Yale researchers followed 660 people for 23 years and found that those who viewed their own ageing positively lived… + Psychology
- Aug 15, 2026 UC Berkeley researchers once ran four studies and found the same striking pattern each time + Psychology
- Aug 15, 2026 A 20-year Swedish study of nearly 30,000 women found that nonsmokers who avoided active sun exposure had a life… + Health & Beauty
- Aug 11, 2026 Being nice and friendly can create many warm encounters without producing a friendship, because closeness grows through… + Psychology
- Aug 10, 2026 Seawater is only about 2.5 per cent denser than freshwater, yet ocean swimming feels like a different activity because… + Lifestyle