Mind & Behavior

Mind & Behavior

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

You don’t have to “feel the burn” to see improvements to your health and well-being.
When you can't enter flow, you can still lean on your internal rhythm.
Over time, different structures in the brain come to play unique roles in the storage and retrieval of long-term memories.
Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain "rewire" itself by forming new neural pathways.
People with shingles have an approximately 80% higher risk of stroke than those without the disease.
slym brain
The "subarachnoidal lymphatic-like membrane" helps shield and protect the brain.
5mins
How to defeat debaters who deal in distractions, according to a two-time world debate champion.
"Jumping genes" exist in various forms, including as remnants of ancient retroviruses, and make up about 45% of the human genome.
boredom
When boredom creeps in, many of us turn to social media. But that may be preventing us from reaching a transformative level of boredom.
7mins
Is it better to be rational or optimistic? Steven Pinker explains.
The majority of children who stutter will spontaneously recover from it without intervention, but some 20% of people do not.
Boredom isn’t the enemy; it’s a catalyst for changing your relationship to work.
boys
Education has a global bias against boys.
15mins
Male inequality — the enormous cultural shift happening right under our nose.
It was originally recorded in the 1970s by cognitive psychologists Harry McGurk and John MacDonald.
Only recently have scientists directly witnessed this most pivotal of events in biology.
Closeup of a baby being kissed by his mother.
Sharing food and kissing are among the signals babies use to interpret their social world, according to a new study.
science breakthroughs
It was a particularly good year for biotech and medical technology. There were also notable advances in energy.