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Psychology
Think you should speak about 40% of the time in conversation? How about 70%?
Creativity and achievement require balancing hard work with the restful power of calm.
Turning away is a natural response.
Why, exactly, don't you trust that person's opinion?
4mins
What the ‘decade of the brain’ taught us about drug addiction. (Hint, we had it all wrong before.)
Queen Elizabeth II has died. How is this loss different from that of a loved one?
Each of us carries our own version of the Multiverse in our heads.
Not all stress is created equal.
Athletes often use creatine to boost performance and aid muscle recovery. Accumulating evidence suggests it could also help with depression.
We also don't know how Tylenol works. But it does work.
Not every "expert" has the expertise to back up their argument.
Dogs are seen as more likely to leap without looking – possibly a trait shared with their owners.
Some animals were even assigned their own lawyers.
It's time to let go of those emails from your cousin and the photos of your dinner.
What creates our private, inner universes is still a mystery.
Managers who are able to identify and understand dark salespeople can manipulate them to benefit the company. What could be more Machiavellian than that?
Looking at ourselves in a mirror — or on a video call — shapes our sense of self. But what you see is not what others see.
The brain is highly plastic — the more we do a particular action, the more we change its makeup. Money is a great motivator for habit-forming actions.
Million Stories
Exercise culture is crazy. But what you need to do is exceedingly simple.
Short-termism is both rooted in our most primal instincts and encouraged by runaway technological development. How can we fight it?
We're still using 800,000 gallons of embalming fluid a year, but burials are becoming far less common.
When justice isn’t tempered by something such as mercy, forgiveness, or nonviolence, efforts to make society more equitable often backfire.
John Templeton Foundation
You open an app and start scrolling, then suddenly it's an hour later. Sound familiar?
The "Mind After Midnight" hypothesis aims to explain why night owls tend to suffer more negative health outcomes.
What can elite athletes teach you about how to win?
Unplugging only ignores the hard work of overcoming your distractions.
People tend to underestimate how much a friend they’ve lost contact with would enjoy a simple note saying "hi."
When it comes to vetting people for friendship, body odor seems to be a decisive factor.
7mins
A neuroscientist explains how to master your focus.
Evolutionary psychology could explain those otherworldly feelings.