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Mind and Behavior
Are you a striver or a pioneer?
Choking under pressure seems to have deep evolutionary roots.
Men with one older brother are 12% more likely to enter a same-sex union than those with a sister.
Painkillers have nasty side effects, such as organ damage or addiction. Researchers have discovered a new drug that may cause none of these.
After it became clear that the world wasn't 6,000 years old, some proposed that northern peoples had emerged independently from others.
Finland reveals that happiness is more about mindset than umbrella drinks and sun-warmed beaches.
To clear Scotland’s roads in winter, the local traffic agency employs heavy machinery with punny names. Can you grit and bear it?
Long before the Wordle mania, there was the crossword puzzle craze. And newspapers around the world condemned them as an “invasive weed” that caused mental illnesses and even murder.
The story of dog domestication is one of converting the wild wolf into man's nicer, smarter, best friend. It might be all wrong.
We value human life in a way that assumes we possess a sacred something not found in beings like lambs, turkeys, or mosquitoes.
How much we enjoy a conversation can all be a matter of timing — specifically, how long it takes us to respond to what was just said.
If your partner is not helping build a better you, is it time for a better partner?
The big-picture physics is simple – let gravity do its job.
Get stronger in only three seconds per day? New research shows that it is possible.
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.
One hundred years ago, a Ukrainian flag flew over Vladivostok and other parts of the “Russian” Far East.
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.
Scientists at UCLA and Penn argue that malfunctioning fat, not necessarily too much of it, is what makes people metabolically unhealthy.
According to Sigmund Freud, our revulsion at taboos is an attempt to suppress a part of us that actually wants to do them.
Life’s stages are changing – we need new terms and new ideas to describe how adults develop and grow
Ages 30 to 45 are now “the rush hour of life.”
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.
What was once an art form has been drained of color and personality by ruthless algorithms. Can we make chess human again?
Since Ukraine originally meant “borderland,” the territory was already a target for several kingdoms.
The most feared sexually transmitted disease (STD) of the last half-millennium was usually named after foreigners, often the French.