A Losing Personality: The Slimming Effect of Being Neurotic
Being neurotic boosts your chances of losing weight--lusting for adventure does not
Features
The Pain of Exclusion
Even trivial episodes of ostracism can shatter your sense of self. But you can lessen-and learn from-the pain
Your Brain on Blueberries: Enhance Memory with the Right Foods
Chemical compounds common to berries, tofu, tea and other foods can shore up memory and boost brainpower
The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
Encounters behind bars between Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering and an American doctor 65 years ago raise questions about responsibility, allegiance and the nature of evil
What Attachment Theory Can Teach about Love and Relationships
The surprising secrets to finding the right partner for a healthy relationship
Body of Thought: How Trivial Sensations Can Influence Reasoning, Social Judgment and Perception
Fleeting sensations and body movements hold sway over what we feel and how we think
Departments
Roundup: Gender Bender
MIND
What, Me Care? Young Are Less Empathetic
- From the Editor
Together and Apart
- Letters
Letters to the Editors, January/February 2011
- Head Lines
How to Form a Habit
Occupational Hazard
If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say...: What Your Description of Others Says about You
Delinquent Youths Boost Older People's Self-Esteem
Knocking Out a "Dumb" Gene Boosts Memory in Mice
Revulsion Arising: Different Forms of Disgust Create Distinctive Physiological Signatures
What's That Robot Looking At?
Toxic Together: Depression and Heart Disease
Monkey See, Monkey Don't: Learning from Others' Mistakes
A Case of Low Energy: The Link between Alzheimer's and Mitochondria
Why Testing Boosts Learning
Preteens and Glowing Screens
Why We Reflexively Self-Grab When Wounded
Social before Birth: Twins First Interact with Each Other as Fetuses
Youngsters Immune to the Contagious Yawn
Why Smear Campaigns Work
- Illusions
The Illusions of Love
- Consciousness Redux
Think Different: How Perception Reveals Brain Differences
- Reviews and Recommendations
CD
- Ask the Brains
How long does it take for your brain to realize you have started to wear a hearing aid?
- Head Games
Head Games
- Mind in Pictures
MIND in Pictures: The Iron Horse
- Calendar
MIND Calendar: January/February 2011
- We're Only Human
The Midnight Ride Effect
- Facts and Fictions in Mental Health
The Insanity Verdict on Trial
