With the president suggesting a multibillion-dollar neuroscience effort, a leading neuroscientist explains the deep conceptual problems with plans to record all the brain's neurons
By Partha Mitra | Mar 5, 2013 | 23
Journalist Emily Bazelon investigates the psychology of bullying, and what can be done to help
By Gareth Cook | Feb 26, 2013 | 5
The image of the increasingly time-crunched American is wrong—and being less rushed does not always mean being happier
By John P. Robinson | Feb 19, 2013 | 8
How temperature shapes difficult decisions
By Adrian F. Ward | Feb 12, 2013 | 17
New science reveals the multiple intelligences of mankind’s best friend
By Gareth Cook | Feb 5, 2013 | 18
The anguished tear, a British scientist argues in a new book, is what makes us uniquely human
By Gareth Cook | Jan 29, 2013 | 8
Hunger is affected by how much you think you ate
By Jason Castro | Jan 22, 2013 | 3
Neuroscience hints at the power of imagining the future
By Melanie Bauer | Jan 15, 2013 | 23
What body language indicates "trustworthy"?
By Piercarlo Valdesolo | Jan 8, 2013 | 3
Scientists describe a system of light exposure that will make long plane trips more pleasurable
Psychologists document the joys of sharing joy
By Emma Seppala | Dec 25, 2012 | 12
What brain scans of rap artists reveal about creativity—and what they do not
By Arne Dietrich | Dec 18, 2012
Psychologists discover a new element of religious—and political—impulses
By Sarah Estes and Jesse Graham | Dec 11, 2012 | 33
The connection between mother and child is ever deeper than thought
By Robert Martone | Dec 4, 2012 | 66
Why are narcissists more physically attractive?
By Daisy Grewal | Nov 27, 2012 | 22
Recent studies find our first impulses are selfless
By Adrian F. Ward | Nov 20, 2012 | 23
Number crunching decades of top 40 music for psychological insight
By Helen Lee Lin | Nov 13, 2012 | 3
New evidence that men are more likely to cooperate in difficult circumstances
By Emma Seppala | Nov 6, 2012 | 5
Researchers find a simple way to make statements seem truer
By Travis Riddle | Oct 31, 2012 | 17
Researchers asked women and men "friends" what they really think—and got very different answers
By Adrian F. Ward | Oct 23, 2012 | 135
Journalist Chris Berdik explains the many ways that what is expected shapes what happens
By Gareth Cook | Oct 16, 2012 | 4
Psychologists explore the outer limits of first impressions
Researcher Jonathan Haidt delves into the psychology of red state/blue state, and offers hope for reconciliation
By Gareth Cook | Oct 2, 2012 | 35
The experience of vastness slows perception of time
By Sarah Estes and Jesse Graham | Sep 25, 2012 | 2
The brain rewires itself to boost the remaining senses
By Mary Bates | Sep 18, 2012 | 3
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