Neuropsych

AI won’t really resemble humanoids. Instead, AI will create a world that countries and large companies can live in.

Is creativity a wild and free state of mind, or is it actually a pattern that others just can’t recognize?

There are three types of intelligence that are necessary for success in life, says the noted psychologist Robert Sternberg.

The study had some interesting findings for the adult children of separated parents who were civil.   

A recent study shows that NBA players performed worse in games where they had spent the previous night staying up late and Tweeting.

It’s all in your mind. Really. Everything bad in the world might be coming from one particular part of the human brain.

In her new book, professor of psychology Lisa Feldman Barrett proposes a radical new theory of emotions.

Natural selection has left us with a world of optimists—is this healthy?

Studying philosophy has had a major impact on the power players of Silicon Valley.

David Eagleman, neuroscientist and host of ‘The Brain’ on PBS, will speak at the Los Angeles Hope Festival on Sunday, May 21. The event is free but seats are limited.

Want to think more creatively? Move your body, and move away from your emotional baseline—in any direction.

Studies reveal the impact of strategic thinking on studying and other areas of life.

The psychopath gene can be expressed in one of two ways. Here’s what stopped James Fallon’s psychopathy from becoming destructive.

A new study shows how talking to yourself may help your brain perform better.

If you’re constantly tired because you can’t break your bad sleeping patterns, this super smart Sunrise Pillow might put you back in the game.

A new study finds a connection between brain lesions and the ability of a person to consider other beliefs.

Science (and life) keep hammering nails “into the coffin of the rational individual.” But rationalism and individualism still haunt and systematically mislead—even about where your mind is.

As medicine’s interest in psychedelic drugs increases,will a shamanistic brew join your therapist’s list of go to prescriptions? 

A groundbreaking study from a Harvard University team suggests that monogamy may be genetically programmed within some mammals.

85% of parents undermine their own efforts, nullifying the impact of a time-out.   

A new study finds LSD — a Schedule I drug with “no medical value” — to be therapeutically beneficial. 

Revenue from tattoo removal services have increased 440% over the last decade. How can we learn to live with regret?

There is an old adage, “take stock of the company you keep”. As it turns out, we are more tolerant of people who have similar negative personality traits as us.

There is a new era of PTSD science just around the corner.  

Recent research suggests what we thought we knew about social trust judgements may be all wrong.

Cognitive abilities peak at varying ages, say researchers from MIT and Harvard.

Even our most imaginative expectations of AI are only primitive — but as neuroscience understands the brain more deeply, it will unlock the full potential of hybrid intelligence.

Does the thought of death make you anxious? A new study suggests that the fear of mortality isn’t really about the afterlife at all. 

Why is it so hard to agree with some people? They are literally wired to value different things than you.

If you cloned yourself perfectly, would the clone have the same mind? At the heart of this question is an investigation into what – and where – consciousness is.