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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.
The truth may be out there — but it’s not in these close encounters of the third kind.
The Reitoff principle gives us permission to "write off" a day and intentionally step away from achieving anything.
CRISPR study helps answer a question that has long puzzled scientists.
Or are cults the religions we find distasteful?
Happiness is not a five-star holiday. It's often the result of struggle — and asking for help, as author Stephanie Harrison recently told Big Think.
AI looks like a natural and inevitable fit for business coaching — but some humans are wary. Here are the pros and cons.
The secret sauce of humor is incongruity. AI knows this as well as we do.
Memories aren’t mental recordings, but pliable information we can use to better manage the present and conjure future possibilities.
When we view hard work as a sign of low aptitude, it harms our ability to learn and grow.
Being bilingual benefits children as they learn to speak — and adults as they age.
Neuroscientist Tali Sharot recently spoke with Big Think about a two-step method for escaping the dark sides of habits.
When all your teammates fall for "the emperor's new clothes," the results can be disastrous — here's how to bust the groupthink.
Here's the case for why science can't keep ignoring human experience.
Genes are sometimes called the “blueprint of life,” but that doesn't make them the behavioral playbook.
A simple dice game shines a bit of light on the psychology of regret.
Here's the thorny reality behind psychedelics' ability to unearth buried memories.
Here's how belief in a higher power can act like a psychological safety net.
Bertrand Russell shows us how to recognize emotional arguments smuggled into presumed statements of fact.
About three out of every four people arrested in the U.S. are men. That rate is similar across the world.