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Mind & Behavior
Study the science of how we think, feel, and act, with insights that help you better understand yourself and others.
Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
Big Think recently spoke with sleep psychologist Dr. Jade Wu about the surprising consequences of forgoing sleep.
Many still consider hypnosis more of a cheap magician’s trick than legitimate clinical medicine.
The world’s highest mountain is also the world’s highest cemetery, with some bodies serving as creepy landmarks for today’s climbers.
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Adam Bryant interviewed over 1,000 CEOs. These are the 3 critical skills to running a company.
Adrie Kusserow, an anthropologist and scholar of Buddhism, shares how her study of the religion and its history has reshaped her view of the world — and herself.
The world’s workplaces are growing lonelier — but the solution requires less than you might expect.
Research suggests that to maintain a healthy brain, we should tend our gut microbiome.
People who die by suicide are more likely to have reduced levels of the NPAS4 gene, which helps regulate inflammation in the brain.
Uncovering the story of Milan Hausner, the Sadská clinic, and LSD psychotherapy behind the Iron Curtain.
Neuroscience supports the notion that an escape from conventional perspectives can be a gateway to spectacular insights.
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We’ve all tried to win an argument by bringing up statistics that support our view. But here’s why that doesn’t work, according to a neuroscientist.
The innovative investor and entrepreneur deals out advice for anyone looking to follow in his footsteps.
One dose of ibogaine was shown to dramatically reduce depression and PTSD.
Prolonged and repetitive tasks rewire us in profound ways – which can be a force for good at work.
Studies claiming to reveal strategies for feeling happy get a second look.
Placebo treatments don't always need to be given deceptively to have positive effects.
Growing evidence suggests a link between the debilitating neurological illness and the microbes that live in our intestines. The vagus nerve may be a pathway.
Psychologist Noel Brick shares the mental techniques we can use to improve our performance on and off the field.
High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.