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Mind and Behavior
Delay the instant gratification of online knowledge and first seek out the wisdom within yourself.
Do you think other people are happier than you?
The puzzle of play
The purpose of play — for children, monkeys, rats or meerkats — has proved surprisingly hard to pin down. Scientists continue to toss around ideas.
Most people care what others think of them. In many situations, that can be leveraged for the common good.
From up close, the cracking sound of a thunderclap dominates. From far away, it's more like a drawn-out rumble. Can science explain why?
We do not need to pause AI research. But we do need a pause on the public release of these tools until we can determine how to deal with them.
FIRE is a lifestyle that promotes extensive saving in order to retire early, despite the fact that early retirement is far from practical.
Million Stories
More than 90 percent of people make a mistake on this test.
Just like with AI, people worried about job security and the spread of disinformation. Machines were destroyed and book merchants were chased out of town.
This was largely a philosophical question until 2005, when a surgical team in France performed the first partial face transplant.
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy utilizes a non-ordinary state of consciousness to heal.
At this event, you’ll be around to hear the eulogy.
Most male mammals have little or nothing to do with their kids. Why is our own species different?
Long-term research efforts have revealed alarming mental health trends.
You know that ghostly feeling that someone is nearby even though nobody is? It could be a trick of neural timing.
A new AI lie detector can dive into their hidden thoughts and reveal “what language models truly believe about the world.”
The ability to decode acoustic information from brain activity aids the development of brain-computer interfaces that restore communication in patients who suffer paralysis.
Tasting sounds and hearing colors.
Considering the perspectives of others has important benefits for individuals and for society. There is one easy way to do it.
John Templeton Foundation
She apparently learned some valuable business skills as a former prostitute.
Humanity can avoid catastrophe — if we look beyond our blinkered present.
Psychedelics mess with our prior beliefs, and could help us see what forms these beliefs in the first place.
If you’re trying to break a bad habit or start a good one, psychologists have some tips.
We bring multifaceted selves to our interactions, and in these interactions co-create each other again and again.
Always look on the bright side of death.
End of life patients face mental health challenges uniquely existential and spiritual in nature — but psychedelics are emerging as a possible solution to relieve the suffering.
“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.”
The utilitarian “greatest happiness principle” has remained popular for two centuries — is it time for a rethink?
"Not my circus, not my monkeys."
Arguments don’t have to be about winning or losing; they can help us build trust despite disagreeing.