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Mind and Behavior
10mins
People are having less sex than ever. 3 experts explain the keys to maintaining a passionate relationship.
Is blood the key to anti-aging, or just another lucrative biotech opportunity?
Is there an ultimate answer to the age-old question?
Fear of technology is not new. But we misunderstand its origin. In reality, we don't fear technology but each other.
ATD 2023 encouraged L&D professionals to create a world that works better – whether by rethinking old assumptions, optimizing how we gather, or creating new measures for success.
And why you, a non-expert, should absolutely not consider "explaining what you know" to an actual expert in the field.
Brain-computer interfaces could enable people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions to "speak."
9mins
No, emotions don’t happen TO you. Here’s what happens instead.
From forgotten Hollywood movies to Frank Herbert’s "Dune," science fiction illustrates some of our deepest fears about technology.
Would you confess your crimes to a skeleton with "an unnatural ghastly glow"? One inventor thought you would.
"Groupthink" gets a bad rap. In reality, we need groups to focus our thinking and to build on the ideas of others.
John Templeton Foundation
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Ancient societies revered dreams. Modern science tells us why.
Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?
Emotion dysregulation has been linked to unhealthy risk-taking, relationship challenges, and negative physical health outcomes.
Germans are masters of building cars, cooking brats — and sitting while peeing.
Meditation can put you in a wiser relationship with life.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Does humanity have a moral imperative to seed life on lifeless worlds? And should we avoid colonizing a planet if life already exists there?
Within a month of that initial conversation, Peter Singer became a vegetarian.
Thomas Edison was on to something...
The replication crisis has debunked many of psychology’s fair-haired hypotheses, but for the marshmallow test, things have only become more interesting.
If something exists, it is by definition natural.
Neuroscience is beginning to provide clues about the emergence of human consciousness.
John Templeton Foundation
Raw food, paleo, gluten-free, detox, and ketogenic: All of these diet fads withered when subjected to scientific scrutiny.
Large language models are an impressive advance in AI, but we are far away from achieving human-level capabilities.
Take a hint from Einstein and Mozart — unplug and make peace with some degree of failure.
The researchers rebuked writers, scholars, and public figures for lazily perpetuating the notion of widespread gender bias in academic science.
Intelligence is not fixed but fluid. A growth mindset allows our brains to flourish while lowering our stress levels.
Rather than sending serial killer art to auctions, it should be sent to abnormal psychologists for research.
"In order to seek truth," Rene Descartes once wrote, "it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, all things."