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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.
In nature, business, and life, survival doesn’t belong to the optimized — it belongs to those with a built-in buffer.
Want to know how to handle work-life pressure? Big Think asked Warfare co-directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza.
Locked inside their minds, thousands await a cure. Neuroscientist Daniel Toker is racing to find it.
Grandmasters and drug dealers have one thing in common: They are many steps ahead of their rivals.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
"Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a truly foreign language."
Barry Ritholtz — market commentator, founder of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and podcast host — shares what really trips investors up.
Surprisingly, multimodal large language models struggle to read time on analog clocks.
A look inside Mindstate Design Labs' effort to design drugs that reliably produce specific states of mind.
What can drugs teach us about consciousness?
Bestselling author Seth Godin urges us to rethink our definition of longevity — and to step back and measure what matters.
Those who know who they are — and what they truly value — refuse to compromise their authentic direction to placate others.
Our brains cling to the bad. This method could help balance the scales.
Science writer Matt Ridley joins us to discuss how “Darwin’s strangest idea” makes us all a bit feather-brained (in a good way).
We manipulate constantly — but few of us want to be called “manipulative.” Here, ex-Google executive Jenny Wood redefines an unfairly maligned trait.
A powerful psychedelic long used in African rituals shows surprising promise for treating traumatic brain injury and PTSD.
Your BS detector might not be as accurate as you think.
A fresh view of intelligence — spanning living systems from bacteria to human civilization — challenges the idea that it’s merely problem-solving.
The nature of “the mind” is always vast and clear no matter how swamped by information we feel — and leaders can learn to embrace this space.