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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.
10mins
People are having less sex than ever. 3 experts explain the keys to maintaining a passionate relationship.
Is blood the key to anti-aging, or just another lucrative biotech opportunity?
Brain-computer interfaces could enable people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions to "speak."
Evolutionary pressures drove the formation of tribes who encoded their values in myths and symbols. Was this cooperation cursed?
9mins
No, emotions don’t happen TO you. Here’s what happens instead.
Would you confess your crimes to a skeleton with "an unnatural ghastly glow"? One inventor thought you would.
It’s the paradoxical observation that the more we try to process, the less we actually can.
We commonly stereotype psychopaths as criminals, but there are probably more in upper management.
4mins
Ancient societies revered dreams. Modern science tells us why.
Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?
The dying brain experiences a surge of electrical activity. Could this help explain the mysterious phenomena of near-death experiences?
Emotion dysregulation has been linked to unhealthy risk-taking, relationship challenges, and negative physical health outcomes.
A recently identified stage of sleep common to narcoleptics is a fertile source of creativity.
5mins
Not all conflict is bad. Expert Priya Parker explains how “heat” can be harnessed for good.
Meditation can put you in a wiser relationship with life.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Thomas Edison was on to something…
The replication crisis has debunked many of psychology’s fair-haired hypotheses, but for the marshmallow test, things have only become more interesting.
The Shirky Principle states that "institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution."
George Orwell got it right: "Never use a long word where a short one will do."