Features

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  Answers in Your Dreams

  When you fall asleep, you enter an alternative state of consciousness—a time when true inspiration can strike

  Deirdre Barrett   | November 1, 2011  | 19

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  Culture of Shock

  Fifty years after Stanley Milgram conducted his series of stunning experiments, psychologists are revisiting his findings on the nature of obedience

  Stephen Reicher and S. Alexander Haslam   | November 1, 2011  | 9

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  Preschool Tests Take Time Away from Play--and Learning

  The trend in early education is to move from a play-based curriculum to a more school-like environment of directed learning. But is earlier better? And better at what?

  Paul Tullis   | November 1, 2011  | 14

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  Minuscule Eye Motions Reveal Your True Thoughts

  Tiny subconscious eye movements called microsaccades stave off blindness in all of us—and can even betray our hidden desires

  Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik   | November 1, 2011  | 4

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  Fiction Hones Social Skills

  Reading fiction can strengthen your social ties and even change your personality

  Keith Oatley   | November 1, 2011  | 3

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  10 New Ways to Peer Inside The Human Mind

  Artistry abounds in these 10 maps of the human mind

  Ann Chin and Sandra Upson   | November 1, 2011  | 115

• Lucid Dreams Unlock Clues about Consciousness

  Becoming aware of your sleeping self could relieve anxiety or tap the creative unconscious

  Ursula Voss   | November 1, 2011  | 8