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Mind and Behavior
It’s estimated that one-in-three women and one-in-five men have an episode of major depression by the age of 65.
Music and sounds only seem to reduce pain in mice when played at a specific volume.
It's common knowledge that syncing your circadian rhythm to a natural light-dark cycle could improve your health and well-being.
2mins
How to see through the lies that surround us.
Is there such a thing as a heroic personality type?
The serotonin theory of depression started to be widely promoted in the 1990s, coinciding with a push to prescribe more SSRIs.
We live in a four-dimensional Universe, where matter and energy curve the fabric of spacetime. But time sure is different from space!
5mins
Where do you place precious brain resources?
It’s not a huge leap to imagine we could target the biological processes that mediate our behaviours.
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People in the East and West really do think differently, especially when it comes to self-identity. Depending where you live, either associative or distinctive thinking will shape your sense of self.
John Templeton Foundation
The psychology of alien contact largely revolves around the concept of "otherness." We need to learn to be comfortable around strange things.
In the philosophy of Star Wars, the Sith are evil because they surrender to passion. But is a life of total rationality a “good” life?
"Politics is weird. It’s the only business in the world in which you take a really, really important position, and you give it to someone with no qualifications." —Tony Blair
The fictitious 31st-century world portrayed by the series is actually quite a bit like our own in the 21st century.
In a world where we assume people tell the truth, liars prosper. To stop them from exploiting others, here are three rules to catch a liar.
In the wake of the pandemic, the crystal industry boomed, with customers hoping the stones might relieve a little anxiety.
We often laugh at inappropriate things, but not when we are emotionally invested. Laughter cannot be serious. So, can we ever laugh at death?
Should men be doing kegels?
6mins
What inequality and populism look like in the brain, according to a neuroscientist.
John Templeton Foundation
Scuba divers often appear to be swimming through a calm and muffled universe. This couldn't be farther from the truth.
A new finding that unconsciously processed images are distributed to higher-order brain networks requires the revision of a popular theory of consciousness.
It is all too easy for humans to fall into the cognitive trap of thinking that an entity that can use language fluently is sentient or intelligent.
Long before tobacco arrived from the Americas, ancient civilizations in the Old World were getting high off hemp smoke and opium.
One might think that people who started poor and became rich might be more sensitive to the plights of the poor. Not so, suggests a new study.
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Only 2% of Alzheimer’s is 100% genetic. The rest is up to your daily habits.
Most American men who die by suicide do not have any known history of mental health problems. So, what is to blame?
Fulfillment at work isn’t about finding your passion; it’s about cultivating the relationships that create a sense of belonging.
It's the "intersection of burnout, imposter syndrome, and anxiety.”
Symbolic gestures often speak to our psyche in ways no rational action could ever speak to our intellect.
Anxieties about being identified will be superseded by fears of being analyzed.