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Lachlan Brown
Contributor at Scandinavia Standard
- 40 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 Being nice and friendly can create many warm encounters without producing a friendship, because closeness grows through… Aug 11, 2026
- + Lifestyle Seawater is only about 2.5 per cent denser than freshwater, yet ocean swimming feels like a different activity because… Aug 10, 2026
- + Lifestyle People who let someone go first in line are often doing more than being polite Aug 10, 2026
All stories
- Aug 10, 2026 Ten thousand steps taken at a slow amble and ten thousand taken briskly are treated as identical by every step counter… + Health & Beauty
- Aug 10, 2026 Sweden's four consecutive weeks of guaranteed summer leave sound like one generous law, but the law only sets a 25 day… + Lifestyle
- Aug 9, 2026 In 1993, psychologists had people submerge a hand in painfully cold water twice, once briefly and once for longer with… + Lifestyle
- Aug 9, 2026 A UCSF-led study followed nearly 18,000 people across 169 countries and found that after just seven days of… + Lifestyle
- Aug 8, 2026 Psychology says introverts who seem completely at ease hosting large gatherings may not be secretly extraverted + Lifestyle
- Aug 8, 2026 Experiments found that merely making a Plan B reduced desire for Plan A and hurt effort-driven performance + Lifestyle
- Aug 8, 2026 Psychology says the people we enjoy talking to aren't necessarily the ones with the best stories + Lifestyle
- Aug 8, 2026 People who want deeper friendships often wait for the right chemistry, but a study tracking relationships after… + Lifestyle
- Aug 7, 2026 Psychology says people who prefer being alone aren’t necessarily antisocial or cold + Lifestyle