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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.
Ev Fedorenko’s Interesting Brains Project highlights the human brain’s remarkable capacity to adapt, reorganize in the face of early damage.
This is your brain on work.
"Of course, the spleen is the biggest organ in the body."
Extreme home environments — either very supportive or harshly negligent — tend to produce more sensitive kids.
Studies suggest that meditation can quiet the restless brain.
“We are biologically programmed to have empathy. It’s something we can’t suppress.”
Mindfulness may be especially useful for gaining more control of your impulses to spend.
Million Stories
Only humans can voluntarily conjure new objects and events in our minds.
As improving biotech offers us longevity, we can prepare to live much better as we age.
Lonely humans will become infatuated with AI-fabricated personas.
Research shows that spending more time on social media is associated with body image issues in boys and young men.
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Expert Michael Spitzer explains how culture can “tune” your musical taste.
A healthy endocannabinoid system is critical to the human body’s immune functions.
Studies show talk therapy works, but experts disagree about how it does so. Finding the answer could help professionals and patients.
While ticker tape synesthesia was first identified in the 1880s, new research looks at this unique phenomenon — and what it means for language comprehension.
There's a link between dark personality traits and breaches of battlefield ethics.
It may be an advantage in some contexts.
Using shaped ultrasound, researchers can 3D print objects in one shot.
Baby mice can regenerate damaged hair cells — and now that we know how they do it, maybe we can, too.