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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.
4mins
Should you confess to cheating? A Columbia ethics professor explains.
Brown noise, the better-known white noise, and even pink noise are all sonic hues.
4mins
Futurist Ari Wallach shares how to become future-conscious.
Foster your own moments of mystery.
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.
Giving speech to the speechless.
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.
7mins
The ultimate definition of trauma, explained by leading psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk.
John Templeton Foundation
Maybe our understanding of quantum entanglement is incomplete, or maybe there is something fundamentally unique about consciousness.