You can see the pattern clearly. You’ve seen it for years. You know exactly where it leads. And somehow — despite full awareness, despite genuine intention to change — you end up there again. The neuroscience of repetition compulsion reveals…
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There is a voice in your head right now. It’s reading these words. It comments on everything. It judges. It worries. It plans. It narrates your entire existence. You’ve always assumed it was you. The neuroscience of inner speech has…
The colour of the sky. The warmth of sunlight. The sound of your favourite song. None of it exists outside your head. The neuroscience of perception reveals the most unsettling truth in all of science — you have never experienced…
You both were there. You both experienced it. And you both remember something completely different. The neuroscience of false memory reveals why memory was never a recording — and why the story you remember is partly a story you invented….
You know you will die. Intellectually, abstractly, undeniably. But your brain cannot actually simulate what that means. The neuroscience of death anxiety reveals why this single neurological fact shapes almost everything about how humans live — and why your brain…
The values you hold. The fears you carry. The way you think about money, family, success and failure. Most of it wasn’t formed by your own experience. The psychology of cultural inheritance reveals it was handed to you by people…
You believe you make choices. You believe you are the author of your own decisions. The neuroscience of free will has been quietly, systematically and uncomfortably challenging that belief for decades. Here’s what the science actually says. You chose to…
You crossed your legs because the person across from you crossed theirs. You started using a word your friend uses constantly. You adopted an accent after spending a week somewhere new. The psychology of mimicry reveals you’re doing this constantly…
You don’t think of yourself as someone who needs enemies. The science of us versus them thinking suggests your brain disagrees. Here’s the dark neuroscience behind why humans are wired to divide, exclude and oppose — and why understanding it…
You worked for it. You waited for it. You finally got it. And then — after a surprisingly short while — it just became your life. The hedonic treadmill science explains why satisfaction never stays as long as you expect…