psychology
How to juggle while walking a tightrope — at work.
Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
Many still consider hypnosis more of a cheap magician’s trick than legitimate clinical medicine.
Adrie Kusserow, an anthropologist and scholar of Buddhism, shares how her study of the religion and its history has reshaped her view of the world — and herself.
Ways to move forward when you're wrong and I'm right.
Uncovering the story of Milan Hausner, the Sadská clinic, and LSD psychotherapy behind the Iron Curtain.
Prolonged and repetitive tasks rewire us in profound ways – which can be a force for good at work.
Studies claiming to reveal strategies for feeling happy get a second look.
Placebo treatments don't always need to be given deceptively to have positive effects.
Psychologist Noel Brick shares the mental techniques we can use to improve our performance on and off the field.
High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.
For better teamwork, take a lesson from research into soccer fans who put aside their tribalism.
Depression applies to individuals and businesses alike — and so does the solution.
People who score high in "obsessive passion" can become rigidly consumed by ideological causes — sometimes dangerously so.
I also can’t conjure sounds, smells, or any other kind of sensory stimulation inside my head. This is called “aphantasia.”
Parents will sometimes use children as weapons in their relationship battles — and the fallout can be devastating.
Ketamine’s remarkable effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness.
Actor and science communicator Alan Alda shares his three rules of three for effective and empathic communication.
Millions of people have had a near-death experience, and it often leads them to believe in an afterlife. Does this count as good proof?
We each have the same 24 hours in the day. How will you spend yours?
Many conversations start awkwardly and derail from there, but a few simple techniques can put them back on track.
Between the hedonic and eudaimonic life, there's a happy medium to be found.
Omer Bartov, who spent decades studying the unspeakable horrors of genocide, shares how his studies have impacted his own mental health.
Is it better to be the oldest sibling, the youngest, or in the middle?
A sober look at a wild conspiracy theory that argues the Middle Ages never happened.
A controversial new philosophy paper tries to bring our moral prejudices to heel. Should it?
Acting "little and often" has huge consequences and they're not always good — but awareness yields solutions.
Arieh Smith, a New York City-based polyglot who runs the YouTube channel Xiaomanyc, talks language-learning with Big Think.
The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.
How to figure out the right amount of time for any project.