When Voltaire said “The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire,” he highlighted a quirk of our psychology: we're rather slow to update our first impressions.

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March Madness greatly appeals to teenage boys and young men, caught up in the aura of gambling and masculinity. Yet few clinicians are aware of this major behavioral addiction .

I went from being in a PhD program to having three breaks in two years. Here are the life lessons I learned during cognitive recovery.

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AI changes, if not disrupts this assumption. What it offers doesn't feel like a continuation of human thought. It feels, at ...

Astronauts experience profound psychological transformations from space travel, but maybe we on Earth can feel similar emotions by viewing what they see.

Why do some people connect while others miss the mark? This post discusses the science behind conversations that work from ...

Why do painful moments stay vivid while many good ones fade? Memory gives extra weight to experiences that threaten safety, ...

Many people are famous for starting things but never completing them. Quitting is the outcome of unaddressed underlying ...