psychology
The fierce debate over participation trophies ignores a crucial fact: Children aren’t idiots.
The formula for resilience? Hope, grit, and amnesia.
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If you have a strong imagination, this won’t help you with academic study.
An emphasis on personal responsibility might explain why conservatives tend to be in better physical health than liberals.
‘For decades, all the major economists … they all believed that we would be working less and less’, Rutger Bregman told Davos
Maslow’s highest level on the hierarchy of needs.
Creativity can bring about unchecked harm, but it’s up to us how we wield it.
One flew east, one flew west, eight shrinks flew into the cuckoo’s nest.
Good science is sometimes trumped by the craving for a “big splash.”
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It’s not just ostriches who stick their head in the sand.
What’s in your tummy might affect what’s in your head.
A study looks at the chemistry of couples engaged in different activities.
In this short video, he compares the outset of Buddhism with the biblical garden.
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A study on the effects of LSD microdosing shows some fittingly strange results.
Want to make safer investments? Pay attention to the music playing in the background.
The Buddha’s teachings seem to be on point.
Who would’ve thought that never seeing blue sky would bum you out?
Psilocybin doesn’t just make you trip; it can have lasting effects on how you see the world.
Beef, salt, and water is all the Canadian professor eats. Is that sustainable?
Eric Weinstein suggests institutions need individuals who can pass two famous psychological tests.
Between the noise and frustration, we’re suffering more than ever.
A new study takes a fresh look at the mechanics of forming habits.
What’s the role of evil in storytelling?
Everyone is a work in progress — even these household names.
Protestantism is good for some people and bad for others. At least that is the conclusion if we are to judge by the stark matters of life, or death, and […]
A picture says a thousand words.
What strategies do you use to push through a tough challenge, be it a run on a treadmill or a stressful phone call with your boss? Perhaps you remind yourself […]