Mind & Brain

An experiment shows that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge and point them in the right direction

Giving in to cynicism makes us less trusting, less connected, and even less physically and mentally healthy.

Facial expressions do far more than just broadcast emotions

The hit show Severance can be refashioned as a teaching moment about certain brain disorders. But its famed “innie” versus “outie” conceit is totally bogus

Margarethe Hilferding was the first woman admitted to Sigmund Freud’s Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, but her radical work on maternal instinct was dismissed and ignored

Snow’s appeal is more than just a fond nostalgia for childhood days away from school

A style of teaching that gets adolescents to reflect beyond the here and now may help their brain grow in ways that enhance life

Recurring dreams may feature taking a test the dreamer didn’t study for, having to make a speech or being attacked. Here’s why our sleeping brain comes back to these unpleasant dreams again and again

A new study finds that dementia cases will increase at a much higher rate than expected, with lifetime risk rising to 42 percent after age 55

People talk more about past events than future ones—and memories hold clues for navigating the present

Findings reveal the memory-related brain processes that generate unwanted thoughts when people are sleep deprived

It seems like time slows in an emergency or in the heat of a sports match. Here are a few explanations for this altered perception