psychology
More than pay or advancement, people are seeking a better fit between their own and corporate values.
Mind Bank Ai is the newest entrant in an ambitious idea: using AI to create a kind of immortality.
Our temporal experience of the world is not divided into a series of neat segments, yet that’s how we talk about time.
Evidence shows that information is transmitted via “complex contagion.”
Why do people own so many unused possessions, treating them as though they are too special to use?
“Theory of mind” enables all people to naturally infer other people’s mental states. Psychopaths don’t seem to put much effort into the process.
A new study suggests that depressed people may prefer a Leonard Cohen or Bob Dylan song to one from The Beach Boys or One Direction.
For some people, the emotional pull of fictional characters is profoundly strong.
Ultrarunning is a celebration of living and a rehearsal of dying all rolled up in a single intense experience.
Our ancestral cousins far more intelligent than we credit them for, and they did things most of us cannot.
Scientists use tripping rats to show that LSD disrupts communication between two key brain regions.
Which philosopher had the strongest arguments? David Hume, who raised some of the best challenges for science, ethics, and religion.
From “shell shock” to “combat fatigue,” the wars of the past century have violently illuminated the power trauma can wield over the mind and body.
“I suddenly woke up one day and thought, you idiot, you are letting your life fade away, you have got to do something.”
Research has shown the benefits of mindfulness, but the current mindfulness craze cannot deliver on its overhyped promises.
Anxiety can be good or bad. It turns out that it’s really up to you.
A study reports that people think those with similar personality traits look alike and vice versa.
Reality is more distorted than we think.
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Once limited in range, mass hysteria can now spread across the globe in an instant.
When you unintentionally step on a dog’s tail, does it know that it was an accident?
What we can learn from our complicated relationship with boredom.
Our brains did not evolve to shop on Amazon.
A new study found that people who scored high in certain psychopathic traits are more likely to limit head movements.
Science confirms what you already knew about being helpful to others.
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Money can buy happiness — if you spend it on others, research suggests.
Our brains believe $10 today is more tangible than $100 next year.
Fintech companies are using elements of video games to make personal finance more fun. But does it work, and what are the risks?
For the ancients, hospitality was an inviolable law enforced by gods and priests and anyone else with the power to make you pay dearly for mistreating a stranger.
A new study tested to what extent dogs can sense human deception.