The research on overthinking points to one specific shift that helps more than telling yourself to stop
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 10, 2026
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Neuroscience, psychology, and the science of how we think and act.
Cognitive scientists have a precise name for the strange blankness of finishing a page and realizing you retained none of it
By Daniel Moran · Aug 10, 2026
Whitehall II tracked 3,433 British civil servants for up to 14 years on either side of retirement and found verbal memory declined 38…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 10, 2026
Psychology has actually mapped what makes a person difficult and defiant, a cluster of antagonistic traits and a reflex to resist any rule…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 10, 2026
Avoiding a scene is easier once you know why scenes happen
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 10, 2026
True intelligence is not simply faster thinking
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Rather than a list of forbidden phrases, the research points to two things parents are wiser not to say as a habit
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 10, 2026
Why retirement can make the question 'What do you do?' unexpectedly difficult
By Mind & Matter · Aug 9, 2026
Quote by Anne Lamott: Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you
By Mind & Matter · Aug 9, 2026
Long before a baby can crawl, walk, or speak a single word, something in its body already seems to know what to fear
By Daniel Moran · Aug 9, 2026
You don't need to be agreeable all the time, and the research explains why
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 9, 2026
The claim that people over 70 who love solitude are among the happiest in society is half right
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 9, 2026