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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.
Wargames are helping answer one of the biggest questions of the AI era: how machines might reshape human decision-making in war.
Away from adult supervision, children practice the skills that make friendship, confidence, and independence possible.
Anxiety feels like a malfunction. Evolutionarily speaking, it's one of your most sophisticated features.
Feedback only feels high-stakes when you've been saving it up.
Vague predictions and post hoc revisions help astrology feel meaningful, even while it fails empirical testing.
Agreeable people may be a pleasure to be around, but they also have a harder time walking away from a bad deal.
The excavation most career advice skips.
As mental health diagnoses become more common and expansive, the labels meant to help us understand our suffering may instead oversimplify it.
How leaders destroy meaning (without realizing it).
These initially sympathetic characters take readers down a dark path.
Your energy doesn’t work like a battery — and treating it that way may be why you still feel tired even after a break.
Your sense of self isn’t located in a single part of the brain — it emerges from a complex interplay of cognitive processes that change over time.
Leadership isn’t about mastering a fixed set of skills, but creating the meaningful, human-centered experiences that inspire others.
In this excerpt from her new book, Jennifer Shahade argues that the smartest move in life, as in chess, is sometimes a sideways one.
Howard Gardner joins us to reflect on the theory of multiple intelligences and why the question of who owns intelligence is more important than ever.
When applied blindly, resilience can do real harm to our health and our ability to change broken systems.
A day in the Sierra Nevada with Tommy Caldwell reveals how pain, trauma, and “elective hardship” became the foundation of his fortitude.
When can a kid play outside alone? Two parents, one stranger, and the state collide.
Neuroscientist Christof Koch on why reflective self-consciousness separates us from intelligent machines.
By better understanding how the brain constructs pain, we may transform how we treat chronic suffering.