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Mind and Behavior
Various environmental phenomena can play tricks on our brain.
In hospice care and hospitals, we prioritize those with more life to live over those who are terminally ill. What is that, if not prejudice?
We are wired to value things more when we work hard at attaining them — even if, objectively, they aren't worth that much.
We need a hypothesis that accounts for both the fine-tuning of physics for life but also the arbitrariness and gratuitous suffering we find in the world.
Antioxidant vitamins don’t stress us like plants do—and don’t have their beneficial effect.
"Precarious manhood" is the belief that manhood must be earned and constantly defended. It has a poor outcome.
“Feedback is a gift,” is an easy bumper sticker to apply, but a harder philosophy to put into execution in your real life.
Morning, afternoon, or night: When is the best time to exercise? Scientists have extensively studied this question. Here's what they found.
By the end, even his mom wanted him gone.
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“Only a narcissist would want to become president.” This is the psychology of an authoritarian unpacked.
Lucid dreamers may have “privileged access to their inner world,” with “heightened awareness... to the outside world.”
Katie Kermode — a memory athlete with four world records — tells Big Think about her unique spin on an ancient technique to memorize unfathomably long lists of information.
Every successful leader can mine golden knowledge from the works of the Bard.
Survey data suggests that our bodily perceptions of love extend far beyond the heart.
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Dispatches host Kmele Foster is on a journey to understand humanity’s role in the cosmos. His first stop? The Atacama Plateau in Northern Chile, home to the darkest deserts and largest telescopes on earth.
Every opportunity seized is another lost — but not choosing is the worst choice of all.
Discover the ancient wisdom of not pushing the river.
“To take this in, you need to ride inside the mathematical symbols.”
The benefits of the psychedelic seem to last long after the trip wears off.
The great philosopher spent the final portion of his painful life in a vegetative state. Did illness get him there, or was it his own philosophy?
The milestone puts us one step closer to ending the organ shortage.
Once at the pinnacle of Amsterdam’s art scene, Rembrandt van Rijn eventually found himself outcompeted by his own students.
The young and healthy were not just as likely to die as the old and frail, according to a new analysis.
Neural imaging has shown that the brain has “decided” what we’re going to do before we make a conscious choice — but is this even relevant to free will?
According to neuropsychologist Julia DiGangi, no one can live a life free of emotional pain. We can only choose how those emotions empower us.
He is only out-sold by William Shakespeare and Lao Tzu.
Even if a leading theory of consciousness is wrong, it can still be useful to science.
Times of crisis tend to produce “hard” leaders, but — driven by Generations Y and Z — a softer leadership style has taken root globally.