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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.
Whatever your length of service in the top role, this tool-box will help you conquer adversity — and thrive.
Sound may be an overlooked tool for boosting well-being.
An excerpt from renowned neuropsychologist Nicholas Humphrey’s book “Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness.”
To understand others, you need to see past their fleeting emotions. You must perceive who they are as people.
Depression can cause you to think too much — and physically sense too little.
"How long someone thinks about [a] problem is a really good proxy of how humans behave."
The acceptance of death is deeply embedded in our culture; it's time to overthrow that idea.
Fixing chronic pain in the body may sometimes require a treatment focused on the brain.
God is not a vending machine, but is it wrong to treat him like one?
While weltschmerz — literally "world-pain" — may be unpleasant, it can also spur us to change things for the better.
Recent research sheds light on how the brain overgeneralizes fear, causing people to be afraid of harmless situations.
An argument for emphasis on subjective experience.
The mindless implementation of AI tools can come at a cost for our teams. Here are some red flags and solutions.
A new framework describes how thought arises from the coordination of neural activity driven by oscillating electric fields — a.k.a. brain “waves” or “rhythms.”
33 years ago, the theoretical biologist Robert Rosen offered an answer to the question "Is life computable?"
Over-reliance on experts with quick fixes has taken us too far from reality — it’s time to dispel the fairy tales.
If music is a window onto truth, what does screaming reveal?
Schopenhauer and Freud can help teams navigate the most prickly of collaboration problems.
Big Think recently spoke with behavioral scientist and author Katy Milkman about what really motivates us and steers our behavior.
If words are really only 7% of communication, then why would anyone need to learn a foreign language?