Neuropsych

Researchers recruited more than 1000 polyamorous participants.

Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a well-known model of human development, but Maslow’s friend and colleague Kazimierz Dąbrowski believed humans developed in a different way.

Want to learn better? Here’s a lesson from cognitive psychology.

Here’s what to say in an era where many people are too afraid to say anything.

When he was developing his famous hierarchy of needs, Abraham Maslow cited 9 historical figures that achieved self-actualization.

Grief is real. Give it time.

In McMindfulness, Ronald Purser says modern mindfulness is dictated more by market forces than ethics.

A new essay by Rafael Euba questions the goals of the happiness industry.

“Having a high level of patience often isn’t something that comes naturally; instead, it is something that improves over time”

These prior beliefs help us make sense of what we are perceiving in the present.

Most diseases don’t differ depending on where you’re from. Schizophrenia, however, is heavily dependent on your culture.

Schadenfreude has always been with us.

Want to be smarter than you were yesterday? Learn to have better conversations using these 3 design principles.

The results contradict the popular assumption that men react far more strongly to pornography.

Studies on stress and memory have often given conflicting results.

Try not to think about your hands. Now enjoy a few minutes of not being able to stop thinking about them.

We don’t perceive time in an objective fashion; instead, the brain interprets time in a complex and amorphous way.

Here’s what neuroscience and psychology have to say about how people humanize and dehumanize one another.

Some studies say they help, others say just the opposite. Let’s dig in to find the truth.

Soon we’ll be able to blink and instantly go online via computer chips attached to our eyes.

Brain plasticity. Mindful superpowers. Pokémon invading our grey matter. Scientists have only begun to learn about the human brain.

There are a few different theories out there, but the parieto-frontal integration theory, or P-FIT, appears to give us the best model of the neuroscience of intelligence.

It’s hard not to conclude that if you act like a child, maybe you’ll learn as effectively as a child, too…

Conversation helps sexual satisfaction and desire, especially with partners in committed relationships.

The downsides of drug abuse are so clear that one would imagine smarter folks would stay away from them. The research suggests otherwise.

Studying ‘episodic memory’ in animals may hold the key to understanding memory loss in humans.

Smoking may put more than just your physical health at risk.

You can be born with good genes and study hard and still not meet your potential. Your environment has a lot to do with how smart you are.

Don’t underestimate the power of play when it comes to problem-solving.

Barbara Tversky takes an outdated idea to task in Mind in Motion.