psychology

Men with one older brother are 12% more likely to enter a same-sex union than those with a sister.

Religion fosters traits that are helpful in a school system that relies on authority figures and rewards people who follow the rules.

Ingesting tiny doses of hallucinogens might not have the outsized benefits that some people claim it does.

Finland reveals that happiness is more about mindset than umbrella drinks and sun-warmed beaches.

If your partner is not helping build a better you, is it time for a better partner?

Thich Nhat Hanh, the late Vietnamese monk, thought walking could be a profound contemplative practice.

And what if both parties are skilled at mirroring each other? Will it produce a stalemate?

Implicit bias may be outside your conscious control, but that doesn’t mean change is.

Whenever you’re surprised, there’s a good chance that your brain is busy tweaking your memories.

With this unique opportunity to create a totally new world, why does the metaverse already feature such old-world concepts?

Should we take people’s drunken behavior as evidence of their true character?

Only talk about the weather?

The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and consider it to be competent.

We forget how unnatural a lot of formal education is. “Learning how to learn” requires bridging the gap between the abstract and the natural.

According to Sigmund Freud, our revulsion at taboos is an attempt to suppress a part of us that actually wants to do them.

Ages 30 to 45 are now “the rush hour of life.”

Iceland consistently ranks as the most gender-equal nation. It is also the nation where men and women are most likely to pursue sex-typical jobs.

The Siege of Leningrad lasted over two years and claimed nearly a million lives. It also inspired writers to record the bleak conditions in which they lived.

Behind the scenes, Hitler had at least three disastrous relationships, including a short-lived marriage.

Solitude, by itself, does not predict feelings of loneliness.

Wordle activates both the language and logic parts of our brain and give us a nice boost of dopamine, whether we win or lose.

Those that were the best at math didn’t even show income satiation — there was no upper limit to how much money could make them happy.

The death of God didn’t strike Nietzsche as an entirely good thing. Without a God, the basic belief system of Western Europe was in jeopardy.

“I need to think about the future. Will you help me?”

Flow occurs when a task’s challenge is balanced with one’s skill.

The road to happiness is indirect and full of frustration.

Beautiful people really know how to catch a break.

The language you speak plays an important role in how you evaluate truth.

OCD and addiction may result in part from improper “reward” pathways in the brain. Ultrasound can disrupt those pathways.

When reading critiques that inflate the uncertainty of science, ask these 7 questions.