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….
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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…
In the darkest conditions imaginable Viktor Frankl observed something that modern neuroscience has spent decades confirming — humans can survive almost anything if they have a reason to. The neuroscience of meaning reveals that purpose isn’t philosophical luxury. It’s biological…
You’ve been told your whole life that money would make things better. More of it meant more happiness. The money and happiness science says something far more complicated — and far more useful. There’s a version of the future most…
Being left out feels devastating in a way that’s hard to explain. You’re not being dramatic. You’re not being weak. The science of social rejection reveals your brain was literally built to treat exclusion as a life threatening emergency. You…