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How Do Painkillers Buffer against Social Rejection?
How do painkillers buffer against social rejection? [More]
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The Neuroscience of Habits: How They Form and How to Change Them [Excerpt]
Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business ( Random House, 2012 ) by Charles Duhigg [More]
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Keeping Secrets Weighs You Down, Literally
Can you keep a secret? We refer to keeping secrets as if they are material things. And a new study suggests that when we know a secret, we perceive ourselves as being physically burdened. [More]
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Better Safe Than Sorry: Why We Believe In Tempting Fate [Excerpt]
The following is an excerpt from The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking: How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us Happy, Healthy and Sane , by Matthew Hutson (Hudson Street Press, 2012). [More]
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Psychiatry's "Bible" Gets an Overhaul (preview)
Editor's Note: Read our blog series on psychiatry's new rulebook, the DSM-5. [More]
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Does Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Require Trauma?
Stress is an inevitable part of our life. Yet whether our daily hassles include the incessant gripes of a nasty boss or another hectoring letter from the Internal Revenue Service, we usually find some...
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Meat-Eating Is Viewed as More of a Man's Game
You are what you eat. But for men and meat, you’re also what you want to eat. Because a new study finds that we strongly associate meat with masculinity. Which may explain the big gender bias in meat...
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Mind-Pops: Psychologists Begin to Study an Unusual form of Proustian Memory
Lia Kvavilashvili sat in her office at the University of Hertfordshire, mentally reviewing a study she had recently published. She knew that there was a particular statistical measure that might have...
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The Brain May Disassemble Itself in Sleep (preview)
Compared with the hustle and bustle of waking life, sleep looks dull and unworkmanlike. Except for in its dreams, a sleeping brain doesn’t misbehave or find a job. It also doesn’t love, scheme, aspire...
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Scents and Senescence: "Old Person Smell" Is Real, but Not Necessarily Offensive
Wait a minute. There's something unusual about the subway seat you just claimed. It's awfully warm, and a peculiar odor seems to hover in the air nearby--a stale, musty odor tinged with something as...
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Mental Imagery Technique Helps Abuse Victims
Survivors of childhood sexual abuse commonly report lingering feelings of being contaminated. This effect can lead to problems with self-esteem and body image, relationship trouble, and behavioral...
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How Nuclear Fallout Casts Doubt on Renewal of Some Adult Brain Cells
The human body is a tireless gardener, growing new cells throughout life in many organs--in the skin, blood, bones and intestines. Until the 1980s most scientists thought that brain cells were the...
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Testosterone Promotes Aggression Automatically
Testosterone has a lot of roles--some good, some perhaps counterproductive. Now research suggests that testosterone can make people more poised for aggression, even if they’re not feeling feisty. [More]
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Of 2 Minds: How Fast and Slow Thinking Shape Perception and Choice [Excerpt]
To survive physically or psychologically, we sometimes need to react automatically to a speeding taxi as we step off the curb or to the subtle facial cues of an angry boss. That automatic mode of...
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America Needs to Study Fractions
What part of math was most intimidating when you were in grade school? Maybe it was fractions. Or even worse, long-form division. Somehow splitting numbers really seemed complicated. [More]
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Confusion Helps Us Learn
When we’re confused by something--say with a movie plot or calculus--we tend to feel uncomfortable, frustrated. But maybe we should embrace the confusion. Because a new study finds that confusion can...
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What the Supercool Arctic Ground Squirrel Teaches Us about the Brain's...
Every September arctic ground squirrels in Alaska, Canada and Siberia retreat into burrows more than a meter beneath the tundra, curl up in nests built from grass, lichen and caribou hair, and begin to...
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