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Mind & Behavior
Study the science of how we think, feel, and act, with insights that help you better understand yourself and others.
The family might be a terrible way to raise kids. But it's the best we have.
Neuroscientist Anil Seth on the deep differences between human minds and artificial ones.
Fun in business is no laughing matter — it can create a golden strategic advantage and bring serious success in the long term.
Your brain responds to game-like mechanics with focus, persistence, and engagement — the exact qualities you need to stay motivated.
New research suggests fun isn’t a distraction from learning — it’s the brain’s way of rewarding us for navigating uncertainty, discovering patterns, and staying mentally alive.
Play isn’t frivolous — and by denying playful impulses, you could be holding yourself back.
Wargames are helping answer one of the biggest questions of the AI era: how machines might reshape human decision-making in war.
Away from adult supervision, children practice the skills that make friendship, confidence, and independence possible.
Anxiety feels like a malfunction. Evolutionarily speaking, it's one of your most sophisticated features.
Feedback only feels high-stakes when you've been saving it up.
Vague predictions and post hoc revisions help astrology feel meaningful, even while it fails empirical testing.
Agreeable people may be a pleasure to be around, but they also have a harder time walking away from a bad deal.
The excavation most career advice skips.
As mental health diagnoses become more common and expansive, the labels meant to help us understand our suffering may instead oversimplify it.
How leaders destroy meaning (without realizing it).
These initially sympathetic characters take readers down a dark path.
Your energy doesn’t work like a battery — and treating it that way may be why you still feel tired even after a break.
Your sense of self isn’t located in a single part of the brain — it emerges from a complex interplay of cognitive processes that change over time.
Leadership isn’t about mastering a fixed set of skills, but creating the meaningful, human-centered experiences that inspire others.
In this excerpt from her new book, Jennifer Shahade argues that the smartest move in life, as in chess, is sometimes a sideways one.