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Neuroscience, psychology, and the science of how we think and act.
We tend to imagine happiness as a life of rest and leisure
By Brendan Brown · Aug 3, 2026
What makes someone attractive is far less fixed than we assume
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 3, 2026
The size of a person's vocabulary is one of the best single predictors of their general intelligence, not because big words make anyone…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 3, 2026
A meta-analysis pooling 99 studies and more than 100 samples found that autonomy, doing things because they genuinely reflect one's own…
Aug 3, 2026
The claim that the nicest people end up the loneliest has spread widely this year, and the largest meta-analysis on personality and…
Aug 2, 2026
People who quietly wave off a hearing aid as they get older are rarely being vain, and untreated hearing loss is now ranked level with high…
Aug 2, 2026
A 2010 study tracking 2,628 first meetings found narcissists were rated more likeable through grooming and confident body language alone…
Aug 2, 2026
A 2018 simulation of 1,000 workers with normally distributed talent found the single most successful person across 100 runs had only…
Aug 2, 2026
A 1979 study found married couples estimating their share of household chores gave answers that summed to well over 100 percent, because…
Aug 2, 2026
A 2001 Psychological Review paper found that self-worth tied to other people's approval, not the overall amount of self-worth a person has…
Aug 2, 2026
The marshmallow test, redone with ten times as many children, found that a four-year-old's willpower mostly stopped predicting teenage…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 2, 2026