Participants’ brains revealed they were doing a kind of “neural replay” of the game they had been manipulated to win.

One alchemist's search for a whiz-bang method to produce gold unlocked the central science instead.

MAPS founder Rick Doblin speaks to Big Think about the FDA’s rejection of MDMA therapy and the future of psychedelic treatments.

You're a moody person. You have to be — because understanding moods philosophically can be crucial to your work-life.

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When appraising human behavior, people tend to forgo the lessons of psychology in favor of assumption and anecdote.

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Alex Edmans, professor of finance at the London Business School, warns us to be mindful of the incentives surrounding misinformation — including our desire to believe it.

The psychology of people who cut off all communication—and how that affects their partners.

"We do not experience primarily because we have brains; we experience because we are alive."

Just because you can't experience it doesn't mean it's not real.

We have it in our power to forgive a debt — and learning to use this power in the workplace can be golden.

“If we're to be happy at all, it has to be found outside of this notion of pleasure. We have to step beyond hedonia. But the problem is that we risk going too far.”

Encouraging thoughtful responses over impulsive reactions can help prevent AI exploitation in decision-making.

The problem for galactic-scale civilizations comes down to two numbers.

“Self-awareness, it's the least visible part of emotional intelligence, but we find in our research that people low in self-awareness are unable to develop strengths very well in other parts of emotional intelligence.”

“Could you create a god?” Nietzsche's titular character asks in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra."

Americans are getting older, and so are traditional healthcare methods. CEO of Northwell Health Michael Dowling shares his take on how we can develop the best care for our elderly loved ones.

Will "Sausage Party" survive the test of time?

"Humans, like most mammals, tend to shut down in really frightening situations for which they have no training or prior experience. Researchers call it negative panic. People do nothing. They shut down."

The Wharton School professor — and author of Co-Intelligence — outlines ways we can tap into the AI advantage safely and effectively.

In 2021, residents of the top America could expect to live 20.4 years longer than residents of the bottom America.

"Is it possible that consciousness is a much more basic phenomenon in nature and is essentially pervading everything?"

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Our classical intuition is no good in a quantum Universe. To make sense of it, we need to learn, and apply, an entirely novel set of rules.

Listen, set boundaries, and point them where to go.

Psychotherapist Israa Nasir explains how a “value-aligned life” can help us crush our goals — without being crushed by the need to accomplish more.

Storytelling skills are not just for entertainment — practical exercises used by the cream of Hollywood can transform your work-life.

The most massive early galaxies grew up faster, and have more stars, than astronomers expected, according to JWST. What does it all mean?

Today’s technology presents unique challenges for social awareness and relationship management at work, making emotional intelligence all the more critical.