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…
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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…
Charles Darwin called it the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Science has spent 150 years trying to explain why your face turns red when you’re embarrassed. Here’s what we finally know. Charles Darwin was not easily puzzled….