When doctors can directly access patients' cerebral reward networks, someone has to decide just how good people should feel.
Chances are, your coworkers are better at rating some parts of your personality than you are.
Matt Berninger of The National continues his subversion of indie rock with a playful new side project.
Seeing things that aren’t there could come from relying too much on the mind and not enough on the senses, new research says.
“Wanting and not wanting the same thing at the same time is a baseline condition of human consciousness.”
Stop. Are you hungry? Then eat something before reading this.
When people are in need of medical care, recent research says they’re less likely to recognize physicians’ interiority.
J. K. Rowling’s investigation of her villain’s mind echoes the intrigue of a true-crime serial-killer profile.
An emerging theory takes principles from quantum physics and applies them to psychology.
People are not generally great at detecting deception, but new research shows that discussing with others makes a big difference.
The drug modafinil was recently found to enhance cognition in healthy people. Should you take it to get a raise?
A new study shows that a healthy mood can spread through friend groups.
When two objects that shouldn’t go together somehow click, they provide a serendipitous moment of order in a world that’s mostly chaos.
Be kind, show understanding, do good—but, some scientists say, don’t try to feel others’ pain.
The search for answers often leads to more questions. Notes from Spotlight Health.
A new memoir explores the little-studied phenomenon of alcohol-induced amnesia and the culture of drinking that downplays its dangers.
A nationally watched gay-conversion trial exposes the dark world of unregulated counseling, where people calling themselves “life coaches” get away with practically anything.
A trial in New Jersey this week will determine whether telling gay people that they can become straight constitutes consumer fraud. The ruling might mean the end of so-called “conversion therapies” for good.
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