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• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Troubled Childhood May Predict PTSD

  Many soldiers' cases of post-traumatic stress disorder may in fact stem from troubled civilian life

  By Wray Herbert   | Nov 21, 2012  | 6

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  How to Spot a Scoundrel

  Certain types of fidgeting give away a person's trustworthiness

  By Wray Herbert   | Aug 23, 2012  | 4

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Bad Habits May Cause Older Drivers' Mistakes

  How we can train elderly drivers to be safer

  By Wray Herbert   | Jun 25, 2012  | 7

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Imagining the Future Invokes Your Memory

  Why we tend to predict rosy times ahead

  By Wray Herbert   | May 12, 2012  | 3

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  The Nuts and Bolts of Emotional Sobriety

  When to engage with negative feelings and when to ignore them

  By Wray Herbert   | Mar 7, 2012  | 4

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Thinking About Mortality Changes How We Act

  Our dueling existential minds influence our beliefs and behaviors in different ways

  By Wray Herbert   | Feb 6, 2012  | 7

• Scientific American Mind |  More Science

  On the Trail of the Orchid Child

  One genetic variant leads to the best and worst outcomes in kids

  By Wray Herbert   | Nov 22, 2011  | 8

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  The Burden of Lying

  Fibbing is tough on the brain. New strategies expose liars by adding to the load

  By Wray Herbert   | Sep 27, 2011  | 14

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  The Partner Paradox: Why Buddying Up to Achieve Goals May Backfire

  By Wray Herbert   | Aug 22, 2011  | 3

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Deadline Pressure Distorts Our Sense of Time

  The difficulty of a task stretches out our perception of time

  By Wray Herbert   | May 10, 2011  | 2

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Border Bias and Our Perception of Risk

  Our mental maps of risk and safety rely too heavily on imaginary boundaries

  By Wray Herbert   | Feb 21, 2011  | 5

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  The Midnight Ride Effect

  How imagining a different past increases our appreciation for the present

  By Wray Herbert   | Jan 17, 2011  | 2

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Dog Tired: What Mutts Can Teach Us about Self-Control

  Scientists have long thought that delayed gratification requires a sense of self, but experiments with dogs show otherwise

  By Wray Herbert   | Nov 2, 2010  | 3

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Faking It: Why Wearing Designer Knockoffs May Have Hidden Psychological Costs

  Polishing your self-image with counterfeit goods may lead to lying, cheating and cynicism

  By Wray Herbert   | Aug 23, 2010  | 59

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  The Willpower Paradox

  Setting your mind on a goal may be counterproductive. Instead think of the future as an open question

  By Wray Herbert   | Jul 26, 2010  | 22

• Scientific American Mind |  More Science

  Changing the Dating Game

  When women approach men instead of vice versa, the gender difference in selectivity disappears

  By Wray Herbert   | Apr 12, 2010  | 10

• Scientific American Mind |  Health

  Extraordinary Perception

  We think of people with autism as having a deficit in cognitive processing—but their distractibility could also result from having enhanced perceptual capabilities

  By Wray Herbert   | Mar 16, 2010  | 15

• Scientific American Mind |  More Science

  I Learned It at the Movies--Hollywood as a Teacher

  Even films that are historically inaccurate can be a valuable teaching tool

  By Wray Herbert   | Dec 30, 2009  | 10

• Scientific American Mind |  Health

  The Color of Sin--Why the Good Guys Wear White

  Ancient fears of filth and contagion may explain why we think of morality in black and white

  By Wray Herbert   | Nov 9, 2009  | 21

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Don't Know Much Biology: Our Trouble Classifying the Living World

  Learning to categorize the life on our planet is surprisingly difficult for the human mind

  By Wray Herbert   | Sep 8, 2009  | 5

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Try a Little Powerlessness—Pitfalls of Self-Control

  We admire self-discipline, but could too much control be a bad thing?

  By Wray Herbert   | Aug 8, 2009  | 17

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  All Together Now: The Universal Appeal of Moving in Unison

  An explanation for synchronous swimming and other group rituals

  By Wray Herbert   | Mar 30, 2009  | 2

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  A Recipe for Motivation: Easy to Read, Easy to Do

  Exercise routine. Gourmet cooking. If it's easy to read about, it must be a cinch to do

  By Wray Herbert   | Feb 19, 2009  | 7

• Scientific American Mind |  Society & Policy

  Modern Foraging: Tried and True versus Novelty

  Some of us prefer the tried and true, and others search high and low for novelty. Why?

  By Wray Herbert   | Dec 19, 2008  | 1

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Are We Hardwired with a Sense of Irony?

  Language has many layers of meaning. When and how do we grasp them?

  By Wray Herbert   | Nov 3, 2008  | 1

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