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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.
5mins
Do humans have souls, or are we just particles? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains.
People engage in creative thinking every day, whether they realize it or not.
Harvard psychiatrist Robert Waldinger discusses how 80 years of ongoing research show relationships to be vital for health and happiness.
You don’t have to “feel the burn” to see improvements to your health and well-being.
When you can't enter flow, you can still lean on your internal rhythm.
Over time, different structures in the brain come to play unique roles in the storage and retrieval of long-term memories.
Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain "rewire" itself by forming new neural pathways.
People with shingles have an approximately 80% higher risk of stroke than those without the disease.
The "subarachnoidal lymphatic-like membrane" helps shield and protect the brain.
5mins
How to defeat debaters who deal in distractions, according to a two-time world debate champion.
"Jumping genes" exist in various forms, including as remnants of ancient retroviruses, and make up about 45% of the human genome.
When boredom creeps in, many of us turn to social media. But that may be preventing us from reaching a transformative level of boredom.
7mins
Is it better to be rational or optimistic? Steven Pinker explains.
The majority of children who stutter will spontaneously recover from it without intervention, but some 20% of people do not.
Boredom isn’t the enemy; it’s a catalyst for changing your relationship to work.
15mins
Male inequality — the enormous cultural shift happening right under our nose.
It was originally recorded in the 1970s by cognitive psychologists Harry McGurk and John MacDonald.