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Behavioral Psychology
It's time to put on your listening hat.
Easily distracted? Try a "distractibility delay."
Willpower alone likely isn't enough to replace a bad habit with a good one.
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Practice doesn’t actually make perfect. Here’s the willpower equation necessary for elite athletes and musicians.
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Your inner voice can be the devil on your shoulder or the angel. It depends on where your focus lies.
Will nature or nurture win out?
Habit-forming rituals are subconsciously controlling your life. Here’s how to master them.
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Are psychopaths cold-blooded murderers? Not usually.
To reap the benefits of digital technologies, we must contend with their addictive designs.
Instead of a mental illness, some research suggests that psychopathy — in moderation — is a reasonable life strategy.
Dr. Amrisha Vaish explains the science of remorse, guilt, and an effective apology.
Morbid fatality statistics on digital highway signs seem to distract drivers, thus increasing the number of car crashes.
Research shows self-ratings of personality traits like diligence are generally more accurate than ratings from others.
Not only that, but AI learns what type of faces we like.
Society treats teenagers as if they’re a problem to be solved, but the truth is that we have to prepare them to solve our problems. It’s time that we change the narrative.
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Chimpanzees are able to consider the context of social interactions and can accept unfavorable outcomes — sometimes.
Salk scientists studied complex decision-making capabilities in a worm with just 302 neurons and a mouth full of teeth. It's smarter than you would think.
We imagine and debate the inner lives of literary characters, knowing there can be no truth about their real motives or beliefs. Could our own inner lives also be works of fiction?
The insects were just as accurate as trained dogs, although not as cuddly.
Dark personality traits include psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism. Is there room for empathy?
The A.I. system could improve the lives of commercially raised pigs.
Adult learning theory is a guidepost for designing training for maximum engagement.
A small study suggests that IMST is as effective as medications or 30 minutes of aerobic exercise.
Many animals practice what looks like self-medication. A new report suggests that chimps tend wounds with insects, often treating each other.
Long before the Wordle mania, there was the crossword puzzle craze. And newspapers around the world condemned them as an “invasive weed” that caused mental illnesses and even murder.
Only talk about the weather?
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.