Mind & Behavior

Mind & Behavior

Study the science of how we think, feel, and act, with insights that help you better understand yourself and others.

Seven women in vintage swimsuits and swim caps, reminiscent of an Aaron Hurst photograph, stand in a line on the beach, kicking up one leg in unison with the sea in the background.
Disconnection is not a personal failure, but a systems challenge — and an opportunity for employers to strengthen our social fabric.
The cover of "Big Trust" by Dr. Shadé Zahrai with Faycal Sekkouah features a blue background with light rays, highlighting the power of big trust in rewiring self-doubt and fueling success.
Labels help your brain make sense of a complex world, but when self-attached, those same labels can convince you that you're unable to grow.
A person in white clothing is partially emerging from a wooden coffin, one hand gripping the lid and the other reaching out, evoking a sense of nostalgia for stories of the past.
Today, nostalgia is somewhat kitsch. Back then, it was something to be feared.
A silhouette of a monkey with brainwave patterns is shown beside a stylized computer, divided by a vertical line on a blue and gray background.
Researchers built a model that behaves like a brain. Without being trained on neural data, the model produced a peculiar signal — one that was later discovered in actual brain activity.
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These cultural lies make normal struggle feel like failure. A habit of experimentation makes it feel like progress.
Book cover for "The Healing Power of Resilience" by Tara Narula, MD, featuring a flower entwined with an EKG line, symbolizing the healing power of resilience, on a beige background with a red border.
Tara Narula shares how journalist Richard Cohen challenged conventional ideas about illness, identity, and strength while living with MS.
A compass with a red needle points north toward a yellow smiley face symbol, signifying happiness, on a textured background with gray, white, and red horizontal sections.
AI will shape the future of work, but human leadership will decide whether that future is good — and happiness should be the touchstone.
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People don't want you to buy their stories — they want you to listen to them.
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We tend to trust our intuitions about consciousness because they feel immediate and personal, but feeling convinced is not the same as being right. Annaka Harris explores what happens when […]
Ancient-style illustration of three nude male warriors running, each holding a decorated round shield and wearing a crested helmet, inspired by themes explored by thinkers like Ezekiel Emanuel.
Health policy expert Ezekiel Emanuel says you don’t have to be obsessed to live a healthy life. Wellness can, and should, be something you enjoy.
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"I continue to believe that in the long run, boys, young men will believe their eyes more than their ears."
Book cover of "Invisible Illness" by Emily Mendenhall, depicting a person holding a mirror with the title reflected, set against a cloudy sky—capturing the hidden struggles of living with an invisible illness.
Emily Mendenhall traces the medical myths, gender bias, and neurological truths behind hysteria, one of history’s most damaging diagnoses.
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A practical blueprint for developing leaders through systems, not sessions.
Book cover with a cream background and red border titled "The Power of Guilt" by Chris Moore, PhD, exploring the power of guilt—why we feel it and its surprising ability to heal.
Psychologist Chris Moore reveals why guilt and anxiety lead us to the compassion necessary to earn forgiveness.
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Revisiting the year’s noteworthy nonfiction.
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We think of physical reality as what objectively exists, independent of any observer. But relativity and quantum physics say otherwise.
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"The big question then is why are most people resilient and why are some people not resilient?"
A man with a beard and glasses smiles as he holds a paper airplane in an office setting, savoring life’s simple joys.
In an age of polycrisis, argues leadership coach Lisa Bennett, we should spend less time trying to save the world — and focus on savoring it instead.
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Neuroscience isn’t dissolving philosophy’s hardest problems — it’s forcing us to rethink where they live.