psychology
Beef, salt, and water is all the Canadian professor eats. Is that sustainable?
Eric Weinstein suggests institutions need individuals who can pass two famous psychological tests.
Between the noise and frustration, we’re suffering more than ever.
A new study takes a fresh look at the mechanics of forming habits.
Throughout history, hundreds — sometimes thousands — of people have been spontaneously compelled to dance until collapsing or dying from exhaustion. What explanations are there for this bizarre phenomenon?
What’s the role of evil in storytelling?
Everyone is a work in progress — even these household names.
Protestantism is good for some people and bad for others. At least that is the conclusion if we are to judge by the stark matters of life, or death, and […]
A picture says a thousand words.
What strategies do you use to push through a tough challenge, be it a run on a treadmill or a stressful phone call with your boss? Perhaps you remind yourself […]
Almost 200 cognitive biases rule our everyday thinking. A new codex boils them down to 4.
The Canadian professor has an extensive collection posted on his site.
A new study from Oregon State University makes it clear: it’s you.
Buddhism and Western science converge on a number of ideas.
Even some teachers suffer from anxiety about math.
Ten of the most sandbagging, red-herring, and effective logical fallacies.
Is it “perverseness,” the “death drive,” or something else?
It’s one factor that can help explain the religiosity gap.
A new study explores how certain personality traits affect individuals’ attitudes on obesity in others.
New research on the public’s opinion about genetically modified foods illustrates an alarming cognitive bias.
There’s a difference between having a harmonious passion and an obsessive one.
Talking about climate change doesn’t have to be an argument over Thanksgiving dinner. Some people, though maybe not all, can be persuaded.
The American Psychological Association recently released guidelines for treating boys and men. Men aren’t happy about it.
The dogs’ ability to recognise and process human faces surpasses even that of monkeys. This newly-identified brain region may be the reason why.
The pressure of getting into a top-tier college seems to have influenced the ways teenagers sort themselves into cliques.
“The best is the child in a separate room, where it then remains alone,” a bestselling Nazi-era parenting book advised.
Researchers discover whether genes or social interaction shape personality.
The study suggest implicit biases can change significantly over a relatively short timeframe.
How mutual admiration was torn asunder by the sex drive: Freud, Jung and the schism at the heart of psychoanalysis.