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Mind and Behavior
Suppose that fetuses are persons. Since pregnant people are too, how should conflicts between them be settled?
Are dreams, hallucinations, and near death experiences all connected?
Easily distracted? Try a "distractibility delay."
Willpower alone likely isn't enough to replace a bad habit with a good one.
John Templeton Foundation
3mins
Practice doesn’t actually make perfect. Here’s the willpower equation necessary for elite athletes and musicians.
John Templeton Foundation
4mins
How to unlock your brain’s natural antidepressants.
Some astrobiologists believe life is rare, while others believe it is common in the Universe. How can we find out which view is correct?
Screens were around in previous generations, but now they truly define childhood.
Your inner voice can be the devil on your shoulder or the angel. It depends on where your focus lies.
There’s a psychological reason you haven’t created healthier habits in your life.
John Templeton Foundation
6mins
Half our day is spent not living in the moment. Here’s how to change that.
Pseudoscience is science’s shadow.
But does Amazon know when you're tired or hungry?
Habit-forming rituals are subconsciously controlling your life. Here’s how to master them.
John Templeton Foundation
One form of domestic abuse involves a parent breaking their child’s connection with the other parent.
Signals from the environment, such as those detected by your sense organs, have no inherent psychological meaning. Your brain creates the meaning.
John Templeton Foundation
"I believe our society's gotten to the point where you can't question. You can't provoke. You just have to adhere to consensus."
Stand Together
The high pitches from the flute and the harp would reach your ears before the notes from the tuba and the cello.
He wear no shoeshine, he got toe-jam football...
"A cheap loan is beyond all new destiny." Does that mean anything to you?
Hoarders know their habits are abnormal, and yet they cannot help themselves. Maybe you can help them.
Drugs that stifle acute inflammation may prevent the body from healing properly.
Are psychopaths cold-blooded murderers? Not usually.
Experiences that put you in a state of flow are shown to override PTSD and heartbreak.
Was there an intelligent, technologically advanced species long before humans existed? Could there have been a dinosaur civilization?
It's the clitoris, stupid!