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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.
"Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions."
When appraising human behavior, people tend to forgo the lessons of psychology in favor of assumption and anecdote.
How black and white is your thinking?
11mins
“We've engineered a volatile world where Starbucks is completely unchanging from year to year, but democracies are collapsing and rivers are drying up.”
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The psychology of people who cut off all communication—and how that affects their partners.
Women bring new and innovative ways of exercising power to the table, argues Gaia van der Esch. All business teams will benefit.
"We do not experience primarily because we have brains; we experience because we are alive."
Just because you can't experience it doesn't mean it's not real.
We have it in our power to forgive a debt — and learning to use this power in the workplace can be golden.
Encouraging thoughtful responses over impulsive reactions can help prevent AI exploitation in decision-making.
8mins
“Self-awareness, it's the least visible part of emotional intelligence, but we find in our research that people low in self-awareness are unable to develop strengths very well in other parts of emotional intelligence.”
If atoms are mostly empty space, then why can't two objects made of atoms simply pass through each other? Quantum physics explains why.
When it comes to behavior, genetics may play a larger role than you think.
4mins
Americans are getting older, and so are traditional healthcare methods. CEO of Northwell Health Michael Dowling shares his take on how we can develop the best care for our elderly loved ones.
Northwell Health
Plato's cave metaphor illustrates the cognitive trap of ignorance, where we may be unaware of the limitations of our understanding.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Leaders ideally intertwine their own success with that of their teams — if that’s not the case at your workplace, here’s what to do.
If you're an atheist with a vocation, who laid that path for you?
10mins
"Is it possible that consciousness is a much more basic phenomenon in nature and is essentially pervading everything?"