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Beer before wine and you'll feel fine? Well, it depends.
Psychologist Mary C. Murphy explains why growth-mindset teams outperform those centered around a lone genius.
Sometimes you just want to hear, "I know what it's like."
You really can get by with a little help from your friends — if you also look beyond your personal to-do list.
Public mass shooters almost always have worldviews shaped by the "3 Rs": rage, resentment, and revenge.
Bob Dylan gave us the paradoxical gem "there's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all." He had a point.
Kahneman was a world-changing psychologist — even with his lesser known ideas on life satisfaction.
According to Harvard career advisor Gorick Ng, this time-saving system can help us reclaim our work-life sanity.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has been a controversial diagnosis since it was first described, back in the 1940s.
His career helped define humanity’s place in the world by bringing us “a little closer” to our ape relatives.
Ditch the old brain vs. heart assumptions, and instead think about a heart-led brain.
A growing body of research suggests that optimism plays a significant role in promoting both physical and mental well-being.
The truth may be out there — but it’s not in these close encounters of the third kind.
The Reitoff principle gives us permission to "write off" a day and intentionally step away from achieving anything.
Or are cults the religions we find distasteful?
AI looks like a natural and inevitable fit for business coaching — but some humans are wary. Here are the pros and cons.
The secret sauce of humor is incongruity. AI knows this as well as we do.
Neuroscientist Tali Sharot recently spoke with Big Think about a two-step method for escaping the dark sides of habits.
When all your teammates fall for "the emperor's new clothes," the results can be disastrous — here's how to bust the groupthink.
Genes are sometimes called the “blueprint of life,” but that doesn't make them the behavioral playbook.
Here's the thorny reality behind psychedelics' ability to unearth buried memories.
Here's how belief in a higher power can act like a psychological safety net.
About three out of every four people arrested in the U.S. are men. That rate is similar across the world.
After listening to the same playlist, people from the United Kingdom, the United States, and China reported feeling nearly identical bodily sensations.
What Shark Tank pitches, Sundance films, and unusual sandwiches show us about our choices.
Benjamin Breen on his greatest revelations while writing about the birth of psychedelic science.
Scientists are probing the head games that influence athletic performance, from coaching to coping with pressure.
Emotional intelligence (EI) is much more than a trending C-suite buzz phrase — it’s the anchor attribute of every great leader.
It may seem as though top performers are always on, but the secret to their success is taking the time to recharge.