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Psychology

What If You Could Describe Your Dreams While Dreaming?

The potential to hack our dreams opens a new frontier for mental research.

March 10, 2021

Consciousness Is Just a Feeling

With help from Freud, this neuropsychologist locates consciousness in choice.

March 3, 2021

Martin Luther Rewired Your Brain

How mass literacy, spurred by Protestantism, reconfigured our neural pathways.

February 17, 2021

Why Horror Films Are More Popular Than Ever

It feels good to control what will terrify you.

January 13, 2021

Scientists Analyzed 24,000 Chess Matches to Understand Cognition

Chess could perhaps be the ultimate window through which we might see how our mental powers shift during our lives.

November 20, 2020

What You Can Learn from Living in Antarctica

Wisdom from the end of the Earth.

November 11, 2020

New Veggies for a Warming Planet

We need a diversity of crops to adapt to Earth’s changing climate.

November 4, 2020