Crews challenges us with an extensive psychological profile of the legend here revealed as scam artist....

Rhodes explicates the sixteen specific duties that doctors take on when they join the profession...

Are you solving the wrong problem?

Are there any meaningful neurological differences between men and women? And if so, what are they?

Are psychedelics invaluable therapeutic medicines, or dangerously unpredictable drugs that precipitate psychosis?

Early on in her clinical practice, psychoanalyst Pilar Jennings was presented with a particularly difficult case: a six-year-old girl who, traumatized by loss, had stopped speaking...

Kurland reveals five common obstacles--habits of the mind that get in the way of living your fullest life--and five tools to transform these obstacles into lasting inner resources for resilience, peace, and joy...

Are robots going to be our overlords? No, we can make them our friends...

Depression and anxiety are not what you think they are, according to my guest...

Rippon presents the latest evidence which finally proves that brains are like mosaics comprised of both male and female components, and that they remain plastic, adapting throughout the course of a person’s life...

Psychotherapy tends to be thought of as a verbal enterprise, wherein participants speak and construct meaning through words. However, much goes on between patient and therapist at an embodied, nonverbal level that deserves attention...

Now you may be thinking to yourself, “100? I’m not sure how appealing that is.” In our interview, Zaraska has a surprising response for you...

Why Give a Damn About Strangers?

Have you ever felt, “Oh my God, I’m turning into my mother (or father)!” ?

Zhang offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how an unfolding “inner revolution” is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, sociality, and the mode of governing in post-socialist times...

How do we distinguish art from non-art artifacts, and what does cognitive science have to do with it?

Relationship problems, struggles with substance abuse, poor memory, and difficulties with emotions are typical symptoms of complex trauma—yet many traumatized individuals have no idea their symptoms share a common cause...

We gravitate toward people like us; it's human nature. Race, class, and gender shape our social identities, and thus who we perceive as "like us" or "not like us". But one overlooked factor can be even more powerful: the way we speak....

Chris Heffer argues that to analyze untruthfulness, we need a framework which goes beyond these two kinds of speech acts, bullshitting and lying...

Living, as we do, in a time in which a U.S. president anoints himself “a very stable genius”, we are particularly appreciative of Eric Weiner, a former foreign correspondent for NPR who writes with humility and humor, as he brings us along with him on his travels to times and places that produced genius...

What are the similar ways in which animals and people try to intimidate others?

What is it that makes hatred so addicting?

de Waal offers a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals, beginning with Mama, a chimpanzee matriarch who formed a deep bond with biologist Jan van Hooff....

Wendy has spent much of her career studying what she considers the very building blocks of behavioral change, something we all know as habits...

Harris and his team describe, and present results from, their classroom-based pilots of this new and highly innovative approach to neuroscience and STEM education...