While executive function matures between 18 and 20 years of age, the brain keeps changing long afterward.
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Biology plays an important role in emotional reactions, but neuroscientist Kristen A. Lindquist posits that our culture is just as influential.
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The replication crisis has debunked many of psychology’s fair-haired hypotheses, but for the marshmallow test, things have only become more interesting.
If our goal is to effect the greatest possible progress, what would it look like to approach this holistically? What might need to dispositionaly in how we approach solving our most important problems—at an individual level, a community level, or at a civilizational or global one? We asked our experts to think big picture about how what new thinking would be required to create a larger pro-progress framework.
Cosmology is unlike other sciences. When our view of the Universe changes, so does our understanding of philosophy and science itself.
According to the legendary investor, the best method is a blueprint for "extreme success.”
Big Think covered the 2012 study shortly after it was published. We are now correcting the record.
Humans are musical animals four million years in the making, explained by music expert Michael Spitzer.
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Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.
"In order to seek truth," Rene Descartes once wrote, "it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, all things."
When a whoopsie-daisy just won’t cut it.
Is it like a tiny ball — or what?
The world’s “most produced living playwright” wins out over other contestants, including Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood.
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]
Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.
There are three barriers we need to overcome to have better, more productive arguments.
Talking about money with loved ones is awkward. Here’s how to do it.
He co-created one of TV’s funniest shows. He still felt like a failure in his 30s. This is comedian Neal Brennan’s story about conquering toxic self-talk.
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In an environment of impressive IQs, emotional intelligence makes all the difference.
His grandfather, a member of Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb team, foresaw the potential of nuclear energy to power cities — not destroy them.
The volcano’s historic eruption preserved an ancient library, but rendered its content illegible. A public competition aims to change that.
Psychopathic tendencies may be present to some extent in all of us. New research is reframing this often sensationalized and maligned set of traits and finding some positive twists.
An interview with filmmaker Jason Sussberg about his new film about Stewart Brand and the importance of culture in achieving progress.
Some neuroscientists question whether the body can “keep score” of anything in a meaningful way.
A few key moments are linked to significant shifts in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
This list of leadership training topics is designed to help businesses navigate the times and prepare for the future.
If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.
Financial setbacks are more common than you might think.
Do the benefits of plastics outweigh the costs?
Jim Lee, President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics, tells us how his childhood obsession with Superman changed his life.
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