Neuropsych

Schadenfreude has always been with us.

Want to be smarter than you were yesterday? Learn to have better conversations using these 3 design principles.

The results contradict the popular assumption that men react far more strongly to pornography.

Studies on stress and memory have often given conflicting results.

Try not to think about your hands. Now enjoy a few minutes of not being able to stop thinking about them.

We don’t perceive time in an objective fashion; instead, the brain interprets time in a complex and amorphous way.

Here’s what neuroscience and psychology have to say about how people humanize and dehumanize one another.

Some studies say they help, others say just the opposite. Let’s dig in to find the truth.

Soon we’ll be able to blink and instantly go online via computer chips attached to our eyes.

Brain plasticity. Mindful superpowers. Pokémon invading our grey matter. Scientists have only begun to learn about the human brain.

There are a few different theories out there, but the parieto-frontal integration theory, or P-FIT, appears to give us the best model of the neuroscience of intelligence.

It’s hard not to conclude that if you act like a child, maybe you’ll learn as effectively as a child, too…

Conversation helps sexual satisfaction and desire, especially with partners in committed relationships.

The downsides of drug abuse are so clear that one would imagine smarter folks would stay away from them. The research suggests otherwise.

Studying ‘episodic memory’ in animals may hold the key to understanding memory loss in humans.

Smoking may put more than just your physical health at risk.

You can be born with good genes and study hard and still not meet your potential. Your environment has a lot to do with how smart you are.

Don’t underestimate the power of play when it comes to problem-solving.

Barbara Tversky takes an outdated idea to task in Mind in Motion.

Harvard psychologists discover why we dislike the people who deliver bad news.

If loneliness is a “disease,” is this one of the complications?

When thinking about your shortcomings, it pays to be kind.

Think adrenaline leaves you unable to think clearly? Think again.

A recent study used data from the Big Five personality to estimate psychopathy prevalence in the 48 contiguous states and Washington, D.C.

Even more intriguing is the reason: recognizing facial expressions.

A new study in Spain displays the powerful effects of empathy.

Creating more neural circuits through visual landmarking not only benefits your spatial orientation, it could keep Alzheimer’s disease at bay.

Expect emotional warfare where there are high-conflict people.

Why did government officials stop psychedelics from reaching mainstream culture?

300 years of industrialization have boosted our IQ scores in one very specific way.