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Human Behavior
Kahneman was a world-changing psychologist — even with his lesser known ideas on life satisfaction.
More than 90% of ticks that bit treated volunteers were dead within 24 hours.
There are only a precious few minutes of totality during even the best solar eclipses. Don't waste yours making these avoidable mistakes.
The secret sauce of humor is incongruity. AI knows this as well as we do.
Genes are sometimes called the “blueprint of life,” but that doesn't make them the behavioral playbook.
A simple dice game shines a bit of light on the psychology of regret.
Some of the world's most satisfied societies are poor, small, and remote.
We don’t yet know if these strange “obelisks” are helpful or harmful.
The world’s highest mountain is also the world’s highest cemetery, with some bodies serving as creepy landmarks for today’s climbers.
Survey data suggests that our bodily perceptions of love extend far beyond the heart.
The young and healthy were not just as likely to die as the old and frail, according to a new analysis.
The flavor is "simultaneously fascinating and... abusive."
In a world without clocks, people used common activities in place of time units. How long it took you to go to the toilet mattered.
Sweet, bitter, salty, sour. These are the four basic tastes we were taught in grade school. But there is a fifth: umami. And it's everywhere.
The anxieties underpinning the Great Resignation were simmering for a long time. Here’s a solution.
A few key moments are linked to significant shifts in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Don’t argue with science. Just do it.
The patron saint of calling BS, Harry Frankfurt, died watching his philosophy become more urgent than ever.
"I am not sick at all but everyone around me becomes sick."
The divers spend their waking hours either under hundreds of feet of water on the ocean floor or squeezed into an area the size of a restaurant booth.
The path of a curling stone on ice — and how it can be influenced — is a revealing metaphor for life's decisions.
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A dog's breed isn't as predictive of behavior as many think it is. Environment and upbringing play a much larger role.
A photographer captured Bern’s eclectic and charming feline structures.
More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Energy balance is the greatest arbiter of weight gain. Embrace the "oinker diet."
The replication crisis has debunked many of psychology’s fair-haired hypotheses, but for the marshmallow test, things have only become more interesting.
Neuroscience is beginning to provide clues about the emergence of human consciousness.
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Our bodies crave more food if we haven’t had enough protein, and this can lead to a vicious cycle.
More than a third of Americans don’t get enough sleep. Diet is an important, under-recognized culprit.