Psychology

The Rat Race

A Neuroscientists Taught Rats How To Drive — Then Things Got Weird

By Kelly Lambert and The Conversation
Psychology

What To Do When Conversations Get Awkward According to a Philospher

By Alexandra Plakias and The Conversation
Villains

Why We Can’t Seem To Shake Horror’s Greatest Villain, The ‘Death Mother’

By Kerry Hegarty and The Conversation
Health

Why Can’t We Quit Diet Coke? The Drink Hacks Our Brains In More Ways Than One

By Elana Spivack
Health

Can Stress Really Make Your Hair Go Grey?

By Theresa Larkin and The Conversation
Health

Alexithymia, The Controversial Label For People Who Are Unable To Identify Emotions

By Rebecca Ellis and The Conversation
Sleep

This One Simple Habit Could Lead To Much Better Sleep — If You're Willing To Share

By Gina Mason, Goffredina Spanò and The Conversation
Science

The Evolutionary Benefits Of Being Forgetful Should Make You Feel Better About Memory Lapses

By Elva Arulchelvan, Sven Vanneste and The Conversation
Health

Humans Can Make Better Choices In Elections Than A Monkey, Right? Right?

By Michael Platt and The Conversation
Health

Science Is Slowly Uncovering the Link Between Mental Health and Perimenopause

By Lisa Shitomi-Jones, Arianna Di Florio and The Conversation
Science

When The Clocks Go Back For Daylight Savings, Night Owls Lose Out

By Darren Rhodes and The Conversation
Health

How Good Is AI At Detecting Human Emotions? Too Good.

By Leo Paas, Ho Seok Ahn, Sanghyub John Lee and The Conversation
Science

Can Wild Animals Experience Trauma? Yes — And It Changes Them Completely

By Xochitl Ortiz Ross and The Conversation
Health

Why We Like To Scare The Crap Out Of Ourselves

By Sarah Kollat and The Conversation
Health

Studies Suggest Mental Health Is Contagious — But How, Why, And Who Is Susceptible?

By Joshua Cohen and Undark
Health

How To Change Your Personality, According To A Clinical Psychologist

By Shannon Sauer-Zavala and The Conversation
Health

Can Your Brain Experience Two Emotions Simultaneously? Here’s What A Neuroscientist Thinks

By Anthony Gianni Vaccaro and The Conversation
Science

This Newly Identified Brain Circuit Could Be Key to Treating PTSD

By Elana Spivack
Health

Psilocybin Helped People With This Common, Overlooked Mental Health Disorder

By Elana Spivack
Health

This Science-Backed Zoom Trick Could Make Meetings Way Less Tiring

By Elana Spivack
Health

The Bizarre Connection Between Colorblindness and Picky Eating

By Isabel Gauthier and The Conversation
Science

Why Do We Dream? The Answer May Be Weirder Than You Think

By Anthony Bloxham and The Conversation
Science

Being Stranded In Space Could Upend Starliner Astronauts’ Perception of Time

By Ruth Ogden, Daniel Eduardo Vigo and The Conversation
Shopping

50 Amazon Products That Help You Monitor and Improve Your Mental Health

By BDG Commerce
Health

This New Memory Study Upends What We Know About How the Brain Makes Connections

By Ines Bramao, Marius Boeltzig, Mikael Johansson and The Conversation
Health

A New Psychology Study Exposes The Big Problem With Happiness

By Elana Spivack
Science

You Should Be Gentle Parenting Your Pet, An Animal Behavior Expert Reveals

By Elana Spivack
Health

Can Virtual Reality Help Folks With Body Image Disturbance?

By Jade Portingale and The Conversation
Health

Our Favorite Comfort Foods May One Day Help Us Tap Into Lost Memories

By Doug Angus, Kate Simpson, Megan Lee and The Conversation
Science

Are The Benefits Of Psychedelics Overblown? Here’s One Compelling Case Against The Hype

By Michiel van Elk and The Conversation
Science

The 3.2 Million-Year-Old Lucy Fossil Reveals A Forgotten Truth About Humans

By Stacy Keltner and The Conversation
Science

There's A Lot More To Translate In A Baby Babble Than You Might Think

By Andrew Jessop and The Conversation
Health

Here’s Why You May Not Be Getting the Benefits You Expected From Mindfulness

By The Conversation, Nathaniel Johnson and Hali Kil
Health

Is Boredom An Emotion? Not Exactly, But It's More Important Than You Think

By Tina Kendall and The Conversation
Science

This Bird Is Way Smarter Than Anyone Gives It Credit For

By Edwin Dalmaijer and The Conversation
Science

Elephants Give Each Other Unique Names. It Gets Weirder

By Mickey Pardo and The Conversation
Health

In a Bizarre Experiment, Neuroscientists Figured Out How We Control This Extremely Basic Human Need

By Knowable Magazine and Emily Underwood
Science

Abracadabra! How magic can help us understand animal minds

By Betsy Mason and Knowable Magazine
Health

When To Quit Therapy, According To A Clinical Psychologist

By Simon Sherry and The Conversation
Health

Why Self-Control Alone Won’t Help You Achieve Your Goals

By Tim Vernimmen and Knowable Magazine
Health

How Legalization Has Made Pot A Lot More Potent

By Ty Schepis and The Conversation
Pet Science

Can You Train Your Cat to Sit? It's Absurdly Easy With This Simple Trick

By Elana Spivack
Science

'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' Raises the Question: How Intelligent Are Apes?

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Health

A New Study Is Finally Attempting to Pin Down The Root Causes of Depression

By The Conversation, Ian Hickie and Jacob Crouse
Health

This Personality Trait May Explain Why You Are Still Single

By The Conversation, Christopher Pepping, Yuthika Girme, Tim Cronin and Geoff Macdonald
Health

Over 700 Startups Have Invested Billions of Dollars Into Solving Humanity’s Most Challenging Problem

By Undark and Emily Cataneo
Health

What Causes Hoarding? New Research Suggests It Can Start in Childhood

By The Conversation and Victoria Ruby-Granger
Detox

Wellness Culture Today Forgot About One Giant Idea From the Original 1970s Movement

By Elana Spivack
Science

Brain Scans Of Jazz Musicians Could Unlock The Mystery Of Creative Flow

By John Kounios, Yvette Kounios and The Conversation
Science

Did Solar Eclipses Boost the Economies of Our Ancestors? These Researchers Think So

By Bree Iskandar