Mind & Behavior

Mind & Behavior

Study the science of how we think, feel, and act, with insights that help you better understand yourself and others.

They believe in meritocracy, yet leave their kids massive wealth.
Children who have a brain hemisphere removed — a procedure known as hemispherectomy — behave completely normally.
When your passion becomes your day job, sometimes the day job becomes a chore.
Here's how to avoid getting duped by the "dark patterns" of online businesses.
Million Stories
A new study concludes that eating more carbohydrates reduces a person's risk of major depressive disorder.
Contrary to popular research, people with more money are happier, but it’s their spending habits, not their account balances, that move the dial.
6mins
Financial expert Paula Pant explains how you can afford anything, but not everything.
Paradoxically, some do it for erotic reasons.
By exposing people to small doses of misinformation and encouraging them to develop resistance strategies, "prebunking" can fight fake news.
With a record-setting $1.9 billion jackpot, you'd think it's a no-brainer to buy a Powerball ticket. But the math truly shows otherwise.
Recent discoveries about bodily awareness have changed how scientists think about the nature of consciousness.
The "love hormone" might be an unexplored treatment for Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
Black cerebral blood vessels are shown against a red background, resembling a brain scan or angiogram image.
7mins
The ultimate definition of trauma, explained by leading psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk.
John Templeton Foundation
quantum entanglement
Maybe our understanding of quantum entanglement is incomplete, or maybe there is something fundamentally unique about consciousness.
We don’t understand why loneliness is bad for us if all we can say is that it hurts.
6mins
Debates about the existence of free will traditionally have been fought by two competing camps: those who believe in free will and those who don’t because they believe the Universe […]
It's perhaps never been harder to resist the urge to overspend.
iq
Children as young as three have been defined for life by IQ tests.