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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.
Anesthesia causes animals and humans to lose consciousness. A study found it has a similar effect on Venus flytraps.
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He’s written 7 books on happiness. He’s studied it for 30 years. He even taught it at Harvard. What can Tal Ben-Shahar tell you about really being happy?
Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we'll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold.
“It’s not a secret that legal language is very hard to understand. It's borderline incomprehensible a lot of the time.”
Scientists find two 30-second techniques that prevent dizziness upon standing.
Psychological safety plays a key role in fostering innovation and collaborative group dynamics where all team members feel comfortable being themselves.
Helplessness isn't learned — it's an instinctual response that can be overcome.
About six minutes after the heart stops, the brain essentially dies.
Salk scientists studied complex decision-making capabilities in a worm with just 302 neurons and a mouth full of teeth. It's smarter than you would think.
Sludge may be inevitable, but there are better ways to manage such frictions in our daily lives.
The idea that the news can make you sick has a long history.
We imagine and debate the inner lives of literary characters, knowing there can be no truth about their real motives or beliefs. Could our own inner lives also be works of fiction?
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Psychologist Daniel Goleman shares what he learned by studying the brain waves of Olympic-level meditators, and his findings are unprecedented.
John Templeton Foundation
Head direction cells act like internal compasses to help the birds navigate during long flights.
Awe is a powerful force, a fact that is both exciting and terrifying.
John Templeton Foundation
Dark personality traits include psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism. Is there room for empathy?
Outrage is a useful emotion that helped our ancient ancestors survive. Today, it leaves us feeling angry, tired, powerless, and miserable.
Nostalgia is a happy remembrance of the past, yet it also leaves us feeling sad. Perhaps ironically, it can serve as a painkiller.
Discussions of human evolution are usually backward looking, as if the greatest triumphs and challenges were in the distant past.
“At that time, it was just a wild idea, […] that instead of just a loss of consciousness, anesthetics may do something to the brain that actually turns pain off.”