Behavioral Psychology

Behavioral Psychology

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."
dopamine nation
Experiencing too much pleasure and not enough pain may yield counterintuitive consequences.
testosterone competition
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 […]