Mind & Behavior

Mind & Behavior

Study the science of how we think, feel, and act, with insights that help you better understand yourself and others.

One form of domestic abuse involves a parent breaking their child’s connection with the other parent.
Two black-and-white illustrations blur reality: a woman sits on a chair, while another person’s head unexpectedly emerges through a hole in the floor beneath a nearby chair.
Signals from the environment, such as those detected by your sense organs, have no inherent psychological meaning. Your brain creates the meaning.
John Templeton Foundation
analysis paralysis
When faced with too many choices, many of us freeze — a phenomenon known as "analysis paralysis." Why? Isn't choice a good thing?
financial bullshit
"A cheap loan is beyond all new destiny." Does that mean anything to you?
Remote training
Remote work is here to stay. Here are a few ways to enhance remote training in a post-pandemic future.
gene editing alcoholism
An experiment in rats suggests that gene editing may be a treatment for anxiety and alcoholism in adults who were exposed to binge-drinking in their adolescence.
hoarding
Hoarders know their habits are abnormal, and yet they cannot help themselves. Maybe you can help them.
Aristotle's ancient virtues play a vital role in today's war.
Data from NASA, ESA, and Roscosmos suggest that long durations in space cause changes in the brain, some of which are linked to vision problems.
Thanks to genetic clues, scientists discovered that an old stroke therapy that had abandoned for decades might just work.
protein diseased brain
Protein fibrils accumulate in the brain during neurodegeneration. Cryo-electron microscopy has now uncovered fibrils of an unexpected protein.
ss
Were Hitler’s SS henchmen willing executioners fueled by racial propaganda or mindless servants vying for promotions?
The Spanish language has the ability to minimize and exaggerate by the simple addition of a suffix.
Faces of two people are being absorbed by their phones.
To reap the benefits of digital technologies, we must contend with their addictive designs.
Safety through technology is no bad thing—Nietzsche himself sought doctors and medicines throughout his life—but it can become pathological.