psychology
Brain-based technologies of spiritual enhancement can induce mystical experiences in many people on demand. What does this mean for spirituality today?
Are you getting a full 8 hours?
What most people don’t realize is that everyone’s imagery is different.
Laughing gas may be far more effective for some than antidepressants.
Dealing with rudeness can nudge you toward cognitive errors.
Maybe eyes really are windows into the soul — or at least into the brain, as a new study finds.
In each of our minds, we draw a demarcation line between beliefs that are reasonable and those that are nonsense. Where do you draw your line?
The experience of life flashing before one’s eyes has been reported for well over a century, but where’s the science behind it?
Milgram’s experiment is rightly famous, but does it show what we think it does?
The symbol for love is the heart, but the brain may be more accurate.
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According to this research, eight percent of Americans always refuse vaccines. Why?
A well-known psychology trick called the “rubber hand illusion” could be useful for treating patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Science has not yet reached a consensus on the nature of consciousness.
Many thousands of different genetic variants are responsible for complex behavior.
This discovery could lead to better treatments for PTSD, borderline personality disorder, and epilepsy.
Anger and silence are the two worst reactions.
Participants with high levels of narcissism showed high levels of aggression, spreading gossip, bullying others, and more.
Participants were asked to complete a simple attention task as well as a more challenging “placekeeping” task.
A lithium imbalance appears linked to suicide.
People who go ballistic over other people’s eating sounds aren’t just cranky — they have misophonia.
Neuroscience explains terrifying ordeals, from out-of-body experiences to alien abductions.
Scientists successfully trained people to use robotic extra thumbs, suggesting body augmentation could revolutionize future humans.
Science journals may be lowering their standards to publish studies with eye-grabbing — but probably incorrect — results.
Curious about the most used emoji on social media?
Dreams are weird. According to a new theory, that’s what makes them useful.
Truth might be hard to find, but we can take steps to eliminate common cognitive biases.
Ever lose track of time while doing something? It gets worse with a VR headset on.
Political partisanship might be a treatable condition.
The way you speak might reveal a lot about you, such as your willingness to engage in casual sex.