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Being more creative doesn’t require a ‘Muse.’ It’s about pairing intelligence and imagination.
Detective fiction reveals how a particular society or time period looks at crime and criminal justice.
The base rate fallacy may help to explain low reproducibility in various fields of science.
We all play the genetic lottery - and the outcome matters a lot.
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Until recently, video games were accused of killing brain cells. Now, researchers are trying to understand how they help players get smarter.
Your bites will heal, but will you ever sleep well again after an infestation of bloodsucking parasites?
Before the war, medical experts treated the body as a sum of its parts. Conditions like wound shock and brain damage called for a change in perspective.
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You can learn things 250% faster by unlocking your ‘flow state.’
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The US reduced smoking rates from 50% to 15% with a simple habit hack.
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Willpower alone likely isn't enough to replace a bad habit with a good one.
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Screens were around in previous generations, but now they truly define childhood.
We all know assholes. Perhaps, you are one. Now, psychologists are trying to answer one of life's biggest mysteries: What, exactly, makes someone an asshole?
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Half our day is spent not living in the moment. Here’s how to change that.
Habit-forming rituals are subconsciously controlling your life. Here’s how to master them.
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Shame is a powerful tool that must be used with care.
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.
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Hoarders know their habits are abnormal, and yet they cannot help themselves. Maybe you can help them.
Are psychopaths cold-blooded murderers? Not usually.
Experiences that put you in a state of flow are shown to override PTSD and heartbreak.
It's the clitoris, stupid!
Were Hitler’s SS henchmen willing executioners fueled by racial propaganda or mindless servants vying for promotions?
To reap the benefits of digital technologies, we must contend with their addictive designs.
If secrets are a kind of poison, confession is the antidote.
It doesn't matter how ridiculous a lie is. As long as it is repeated often enough, some people will believe it.
Instead of a mental illness, some research suggests that psychopathy — in moderation — is a reasonable life strategy.
In a new book, an MIT scholar examines how game-theory logic underpins many of our seemingly odd and irrational decisions.
The effects are even worse for women.