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Psychology
Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
Many still consider hypnosis more of a cheap magician’s trick than legitimate clinical medicine.
Adrie Kusserow, an anthropologist and scholar of Buddhism, shares how her study of the religion and its history has reshaped her view of the world — and herself.
The world’s workplaces are growing lonelier — but the solution requires less than you might expect.
Prolonged and repetitive tasks rewire us in profound ways – which can be a force for good at work.
Studies claiming to reveal strategies for feeling happy get a second look.
Placebo treatments don't always need to be given deceptively to have positive effects.
Psychologist Noel Brick shares the mental techniques we can use to improve our performance on and off the field.
Depression applies to individuals and businesses alike — and so does the solution.
People who score high in "obsessive passion" can become rigidly consumed by ideological causes — sometimes dangerously so.
I also can’t conjure sounds, smells, or any other kind of sensory stimulation inside my head. This is called “aphantasia.”
Parents will sometimes use children as weapons in their relationship battles — and the fallout can be devastating.
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Biology plays an important role in emotional reactions, but neuroscientist Kristen A. Lindquist posits that our culture is just as influential.
Unlikely Collaborators
Actor and science communicator Alan Alda shares his three rules of three for effective and empathic communication.
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He revolutionized hospitality, twice. Chip Conley shares his secrets to being able to evolve in an ever-changing world.
Millions of people have had a near-death experience, and it often leads them to believe in an afterlife. Does this count as good proof?
A volley of new insights reignites the debate over whether our choices are ever truly our own.
Many conversations start awkwardly and derail from there, but a few simple techniques can put them back on track.
Between the hedonic and eudaimonic life, there's a happy medium to be found.
A controversial new philosophy paper tries to bring our moral prejudices to heel. Should it?
Acting "little and often" has huge consequences and they're not always good — but awareness yields solutions.
Some neuroscientists question whether the body can “keep score” of anything in a meaningful way.
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MakeLoveNotPorn founder Cindy Gallop says women need to stop giving a damn what people think.
Unlikely Collaborators
Arieh Smith, a New York City-based polyglot who runs the YouTube channel Xiaomanyc, talks language-learning with Big Think.
There are steps we can take to create a new paradigm that will help shift society's attitude towards women in the workplace.
The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.
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It just takes one “yes.” Wharton professor Jonah Berger shares his three tips for getting what you want from others.
Instead of fear, his delusions bring him cheer. His psychiatrist embraces them.
Claims of a sudden infestation appear unfounded.
Acclaimed psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, author of “The Body Keeps The Score,” discusses the widespread existence of trauma and how it settles in our bodies.