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Behavioral Psychology
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OCD and addiction may result in part from improper “reward” pathways in the brain. Ultrasound can disrupt those pathways.
This article was originally published on our sister site, Freethink. Fifteen volunteers in France just spent more than a month living in a cave — without any way to tell time — […]
After a night of partying and heavy drinking, you might be tempted to Google "hangover cures." Unfortunately, there aren't any.
The placebo effect is not the "power of positive thinking." The fact that it is getting stronger is not a good development.
Are some of us simple destined for unhappiness?
Personality is not set in stone. If you don’t like some aspect of it, you can work to change it — "fake it till you make it."
Experiencing too much pleasure and not enough pain may yield counterintuitive consequences.
In tough competitions, men tend to give up early when they feel a low sense of control. Testosterone eradicates that effect.
Social conflicts can leave molecular marks on animals, according to recent research on the ant species Harpegnathos saltator.
Why weightlessness is possible, even if there’s no place you can hide from the Universe’s longest-range force. “It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that […]