Are you—or a loved one—seemingly compelled to diet, purge, binge, or exercise? If so, many people believe they are “weak” or “failing” and need to try harder. Yet another possibility is that the brain ...

We often treat symptoms as isolated problems. But what if they belong to a larger story organizing our identity, choices, and relationships in ways we haven't yet seen?

"When you're just showing raw visual stimuli and bombarding a kid with it, it just doesn't seem it's probably that good for them." The post YouTube Filling With Horrifying AI Slop for Children ...

What is virtue signaling? Dive into the science and philosophy of moral grandstanding, social media behavior, and what it ...

Most of our daily actions may happen without much thought. Researchers found that around 65% of everyday behaviors are triggered automatically by habit rather than conscious decisions. Many of these ...

New research published in Intelligence provides evidence that wisdom guides our creative abilities toward benefiting others. The findings suggest that while creativity is powerful, it requires the ...

Why are adolescents so sensitive to their peers' behavior? And is this sensitivity necessarily negative, as the term peer ...

Teenagers who use social media more frequently may show slightly higher empathy, according to a new meta-analysis by researchers at Georgia State University. The study, a systematic review published ...

“I remember hearing her say stuff and figuring out that she didn't mean what she said,” says Walker, who leads the Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab at UC Santa Cruz. “She used to say ...

"It’s on You" chronicles how corporations and behavioral economists pushed for huge, systemic problems to be fixed by personal choices.

A new study finds that the greater the amount of populist rhetoric in a nation, the less likely entrepreneurs are to register their businesses—dodging both taxes and government regulations. "Populist ...

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