We spend so much time on standardized testing and measuring learning ability that we don’t track how much we’re developing the key competencies that enable us to imagine what could be...
Today would have been my mentor's 80th birthday. Happy Birthday Nick and thanks for showing me that mentors really do matter.
The ethical threat posed by Adderall and other drugs that improve motivation
Declarative memory, rooted in the hippocampus, could help the brain pick up the slack for diverse impairments across many developmental disorders such as autism and obsessive-compulsive disorder...
If violent criminal tendencies peak during the teen years and seldom extend to midlife, should we still lock people up and throw away the key?
Choose experiences over goods, delay gratification and remember that wealthy people are not any happier than the average Joe
The Viennese physician Josef Breuer (1842-1925) has a unique and prominent place in the history of psychotherapy. From 1880-82, while treating a patient known as Anna O., Breuer developed the cathartic method, or talking cure, for treating nervous disorders...
Let your kids get bored, don’t solve all their problems, and be sure to tend to your own basic needs first
Books and recommendations from Scientific American MIND
Conventional wisdom suggests violent media is harming kids. But sometimes a game is just a game
When you are nervous, empathy can fail you
Experimental vaccine manipulates the immune system to alleviate the development of anxiety and fear in rodents
A new documentary film presents the science behind when and why people lie. Daisy Yuhas reports
Autism and schizophrenia are related to different forms of creativity
The first longitudinal study in children supports the theory that parents with unrealistically positive views of their kids foster narcissistic qualities
People tend to remember a color they saw, for example green-blue teal, as being closer to a more stereotypical variant, such as straight blue or green. Karen Hopkin reports
Scientific American MIND’s online survey of pet owners uncovered some interesting results when people were asked about their interspecies relationships
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Books and recommendations from Scientific American MIND
Not everyone we think of as a narcissist shows both facets of the personality trait
