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Brain & Behavior
Neuroscience, psychology, and the science of how we think and act.
Dominating a conversation does more damage than seeming self-absorbed
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Deep unhappiness is more common among women than men, and the reasons are mostly circumstantial rather than a matter of temperament
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Dolphins sleep with half a brain at a time
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Stopping a non-stop talker feels rude because conversation runs on split-second turn-taking that a monologue overrides
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Something unusual is happening to young people in the English-speaking West
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The traits we use to spot a future leader, confidence, charisma, the person who commands the room, mostly predict who gets picked, not who…
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Something strange happened to American children after 1990
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Being needed and being loved can feel similar, especially when family roles begin to change
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People form judgments about a stranger’s trustworthiness and competence after seeing their face for just one-tenth of a second
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Quote by Viktor Frankl: Between stimulus and response there is a space, in that space is our power to choose our response, and in our…
Aug 16, 2026
Decades of navigating relationships may leave older adults with one ability that ageing often spares
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