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Black Mirror’s “Be Right Back”: Denial, Bargaining, and the Psychology of Unfinished Grief

Black Mirror’s “Be Right Back”: Denial, Bargaining, and the Psychology of Unfinished Grief

In S2E1 of Black Mirror’s “Be Right Back,” Martha becomes trapped in denial and bargaining—using technology to avoid loss, revealing the psychological cost of not accepting death.

Safa Rubaye, MD
PsychologyPsychology
Netflix’s Straw: How Stress and Scarcity Turn a Bad Day into a Thriller

Netflix’s Straw: How Stress and Scarcity Turn a Bad Day into a Thriller

Tyler Perry’s Straw follows a single mother’s day from crisis to catastrophe, unpacking the science of stress, the psychology of scarcity, and the systems that push people to the brink.

Safa Rubaye, MD
PsychologyPsychology
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Game Theory and Teamwork in 21: How MIT Students Beat Vegas—Until Trust Busted the Bank

Game Theory and Teamwork in 21: How MIT Students Beat Vegas—Until Trust Busted the Bank

How a crew of MIT card-counters turned probability into profit—and why their biggest gamble was trusting each other.

Safa Rubaye, MD
PsychologyPsychology
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Multiple Choice: Mickey 17 and the Disposable Self

Multiple Choice: Mickey 17 and the Disposable Self

Bong Joon‐ho’s clone‐comedy asks how many times a man can die before his meaning does.

Safa Rubaye, MD
PsychologyPsychology
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The Mauritanian: How Fear, Fatigue, and Authority Can Twist the Truth

The Mauritanian: How Fear, Fatigue, and Authority Can Twist the Truth

Exploring how isolation, fear, and exhaustion can trick the brain into believing falsehoods.

Safa Rubaye, MD
PsychologyPsychology
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Beautiful, Messy Truth of a Remembered Heart

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Beautiful, Messy Truth of a Remembered Heart

An exploration of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and the science that makes its fiction so resonant.

Safa Rubaye, MD
PsychologyPsychology
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The Pale Blue Eye: How Uniforms Unite and Erase Our Identities

The Pale Blue Eye: How Uniforms Unite and Erase Our Identities

Exploring Landor’s chilling insight—“it takes away a man’s will, fences him with rules, and deprives him of reason”—and the psychological power behind a uniform.

Safa Rubaye, MD
PsychologyPsychology
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Alone on the Ice: Existential Isolation in The Terror

Alone on the Ice: Existential Isolation in The Terror

How AMC’s The Terror turns a doomed Arctic voyage into a haunting study of existential isolation, psychological horror, and the loneliness in extreme environments that pushes men to the edge.

Safa Rubaye, MD
Science Science
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The Weight of Words: The Psychological Dilemma Behind Agu’s "Beast" Identity

The Weight of Words: The Psychological Dilemma Behind Agu’s "Beast" Identity

How Forced Violence Clashes with an Intact Moral Compass in Beasts of No Nation

Safa Rubaye, MD
PsychologyPsychology
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Snowpiercer and the Psychology of Control

Snowpiercer and the Psychology of Control

Survival, Scarcity, and Learned Helplessness.How fighting for survival can keep us trapped psychologically

Safa Rubaye, MD
PsychologyPsychology
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John Locke in LOST: The Psychology of Meaning and Destiny

John Locke in LOST: The Psychology of Meaning and Destiny

How a stranded man’s belief in the island mirrors our deepest need to find purpose

Safa Rubaye, MD
PsychologyPsychology
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The Agentic Shift in Glass Onion: How Groupthink and Power Dress Up in Linen

The Agentic Shift in Glass Onion: How Groupthink and Power Dress Up in Linen

How Rian Johnson’s Social Satire Reveals the Dangerous Comfort of Following the “Genius” in the Room

Safa Rubaye, MD