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Mind and Behavior
Which one is the funniest?
Between 30% and 50% of the US population says they believe in ghosts.
Living is about staying busy.
You don’t need to ride into the danger zone to take advantage of TOPGUN’s life and career lessons.
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TOPGUN fighter pilot Guy Snodgrass shares his 3 key leadership lessons from the cockpit.
We got lucky with our evolutionary history.
The same brain differences that contribute to left-handedness also contribute to psychotic disorders. But there's a bright side.
Many animals engage in “zoopharmacognosy” or self-medication.
It might seem petty and shallow to get upset over a bad gift, but there's often a deeper reason behind the feeling.
One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.
The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.
Which studies are actually worth the hype?
The findings of a recent study may help explain why some people are quicker to forget fearful memories.
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Dr. Carl Hart breaks taboos surrounding drug use in America.
Many were expecting extremism survivor and free speech advocate Salman Rushdie to take home the Nobel Prize in Literature, but Annie Ernaux beat him to it.
Einstein always loses in the quantum realm.
Japan just opened to tourists for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, echoing the island country’s isolationist policies during the feudal era.
It turns out it's hard to make work at an Amazon warehouse fun.
Fiona Broome remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s (he didn't). Oddly, many people had the same false memory.
The idea that we're happier at the beginning and end of our lives is really just a comforting myth.
The key to curbing sugar intake may lie in the gut rather than our tastebuds.
Based on product labeling claims, scientists hypothesized that green cleaners were less toxic. They were wrong.
Every Christmas could be the last Christmas.
A key question is how to keep that relief going without relying solely on repeated ketamine infusions.
People living in non-industrialized societies don't get pimples.
The U.S. military once used Google’s tech without their employees knowing. Anna Butrico explains the complicated history behind “Project Maven.”
Brands like BMW, Walmart, and IBM are seeing big wins from the use of gamification in corporate training. Here's how.
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An inclusion expert explains why women of color are held back.
If you're trying to hide how you feel about something, be careful with your hands.
Sigmund Freud developed the decidedly unscientific principles of psychoanalysis in a time when most psychologists were trying to join the ranks of chemists and medical doctors.