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People who score high in "obsessive passion" can become rigidly consumed by ideological causes — sometimes dangerously so.
I also can’t conjure sounds, smells, or any other kind of sensory stimulation inside my head. This is called “aphantasia.”
In pre-War Cambridge, students had to ace an interview with Ludwig Wittgenstein to attend his lectures — Alan Turing passed that test, and went on to create one of his own.
A controversial new philosophy paper tries to bring our moral prejudices to heel. Should it?
The aging brain is networked differently.
Arieh Smith, a New York City-based polyglot who runs the YouTube channel Xiaomanyc, talks language-learning with Big Think.
According to neuropsychologist Julia DiGangi, no one can live a life free of emotional pain. We can only choose how those emotions empower us.
Goalkeepers have an enhanced ability to integrate auditory and visual information compared to other players.
If the "self" is not real, then we are slaves to a billiard ball universe, trapped in a nihilistic nightmare in which we cannot change our fate.
John Templeton Foundation
We are prone to false memories. One reason is that we are biased toward remembering tidy endings for events, even if they didn't exist.
“Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed," advised Stoic philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius. He had a point.
Jung thought these autonomous entities live in your unconscious mind — often at a cost.
Is mindfulness really the panacea it's touted to be, or are we glossing over some fundamental flaws?
Language influences how you visually process the world, which in turn influences your memory of it.
Listening to some songs can cause a powerful physiological response known as "frisson." What is it, and why does it happen?
Bad news: Sleeping in on the weekends probably won't cut it.
Are fools happy and geniuses disorganized — or is that a mistaken stereotype?
It could explain why so many people don’t respond to common antidepressants.
The structure is fully developed in humans, partially developed in chimps, and completely absent in Old World monkeys.
The patron saint of calling BS, Harry Frankfurt, died watching his philosophy become more urgent than ever.
If you’ve looked for a job recently, you may have encountered the personality test. You may also have wondered if it was backed by scientific research.
Modern memory athletes use this ancient technique to memorize thousands of digits of pi.
The space‑specific neurons in the owl’s specialized auditory brain can do advanced math.
Don't feel compelled to start a napping routine just yet.
Math can explain why your laces spontaneously come untied — and how to stop it.
Your expectations form the way you experience the world.
Quantum physics is starting to show up in unexpected places. Indeed, it is at work in animals, plants, and our own bodies.
Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature's most unreliable narrators.
A series of charts shows how prevalent different mental illnesses are across the globe — but how we define them matters.