Neuropsych
Moral reframing: How to work with, not against, our tribal tendencies 
People underestimate their opponent’s capacity to feel basic human sensations. We can short-circuit this impulse through moral reframing and perspective taking.
Why do people rate AI-generated faces as more trustworthy?
What makes a face trustworthy, anyway?
Research confirms men with older brothers are more likely to be gay
Men with one older brother are 12% more likely to enter a same-sex union than those with a sister.
Implicit bias: What you can (and can’t) do about it
Implicit bias may be outside your conscious control, but that doesn’t mean change is.
The marshmallow test: Bunkum or a true predictor of future success?
The replication crisis has debunked many of psychology’s fair-haired hypotheses, but for the marshmallow test, things have only become more interesting.
Alone in space: the insidious effect of isolation
Communication with home will be difficult on long-haul space flights. The longer this isolation goes on, the more detached a crew becomes.
The awesome power of awe: How this neglected emotion can change lives
Awe makes us feel smaller but also more connected to life and each other.
Reciprocal bond: When do we learn to trust others?
We are more likely to agree with someone who also agrees with us. Young children, though, only trust themselves. We have to learn to trust.
People at risk of depression prefer complex song lyrics
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.
The great free will debate
Philosophers, theoretical physicists, psychologists, and others consider what or who is really in control.
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16 values children learned from pop culture in the past 50 years
A 50-year study reveals changing values children learned from pop culture.
New study suggests placebo might be as powerful as psychedelics
New study suggests the placebo effect can be as powerful as microdosing LSD.
Japanese government appoints new “Minister of Loneliness”
While not the first such minister, the loneliness epidemic in Japan will make this one the hardest working.
Lab-grown brain organoids mature like real infant brains
After 20 months, scientists find lab-dish brain cells matured at a similar rate to those of an actual infant.
We have a new word for that feeling when travel makes everything new
A tourist generally has an eye for the things that have become almost invisible to the resident.
4 tips for college students to avoid procrastinating with their online work
More than 70% of college students procrastinate
A philosophical approach to routines can illuminate who we really are
What can 'behaviorism' teach us about ourselves?
How will psychiatrists administer psychedelic treatments?
As a new industry emerges, therapists need to be educated.
The lost art of rest: How to relax
In her book The Art of Rest, one researcher conducted a thorough analysis of the top 10 activities we find most restful.
Does fact-checking really work? Timing matters.
New research from MIT is unintuitive but could lead to a better system.
Wireless brain-to-brain communication steps closer to human trials
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently issued $8 million in follow-up funding to a team of neuroengineers developing brain-to-brain and brain-to-machine technology.
You’re simply not that big a deal: now isn’t that a relief?
Learn how to practice "self-indifference."
Control group outperforms mediums in psychic test
Some volunteers performed above chance. They weren't the psychics.