Psychology

Psychology

6mins
How do we deal with information overload and unlock creativity? Build a second brain.
There are four money personality types. Which are you?
Million Stories
Find it easier to sort out your friends' problems than your own? This paradox is for you.
People engage in creative thinking every day, whether they realize it or not.
You don’t have to “feel the burn” to see improvements to your health and well-being.
When you can't enter flow, you can still lean on your internal rhythm.
5mins
How to defeat debaters who deal in distractions, according to a two-time world debate champion.
7mins
Is it better to be rational or optimistic? Steven Pinker explains.
The majority of children who stutter will spontaneously recover from it without intervention, but some 20% of people do not.
Boredom isn’t the enemy; it’s a catalyst for changing your relationship to work.
boys
Education has a global bias against boys.
15mins
Male inequality — the enormous cultural shift happening right under our nose.
It was originally recorded in the 1970s by cognitive psychologists Harry McGurk and John MacDonald.
Closeup of a baby being kissed by his mother.
Sharing food and kissing are among the signals babies use to interpret their social world, according to a new study.
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Deep secrets don’t explode. They do something worse, explains Michael Slepian.
When we're stressed, our hormones and nervous system produce all sorts of odors.
Belief in God and the afterlife increased, while belief in superstition decreased.
A man in a suit stands facing a mirror, but the reflection shows the back of his head instead of his face.
6mins
If your inner voice is cruel, try these steps to reclaim your mind.
John Templeton Foundation
A sequence of human silhouettes in shades of blue and green shows progressive motion of a person walking from left to right.
3mins
Think via Bayes’ rule to become more rational and less brainwashed.
John Templeton Foundation
The placebo effect is real. So are the ethical conundrums posed by those who would exploit the latest research advances for profit.
11mins
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That old adage roughly sums up the idea of antifragility, a term coined by the statistician and writer Nassim Taleb. The term refers […]
"Kids are always asking two questions of parents: 'Am I safe?' and 'Am I real?'"
Eyes with lower pigment (blue or grey eyes) don’t need to absorb as much light as brown or dark eyes before this information reaches the retinal cells. This might provide light-eyed people with some resilience to SAD.
Becoming less physically active as you get older is not inevitable.