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July 1, 2012Mind & Brain
When Nice Guys Finish First: Pleasant people enjoy many advantages in life and, with some effort, can even make it to the top; Daisy Grewal; Scientific American Mind Volume 23, Issue 3; 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0712-62

April 6, 2018Behavior
How to Avoid Business Disasters with Behavioral Science: Data breaches, customer service embarrassments and other stock-tanking missteps seem to be in the news every other day—but it doesn't have to be this way; Gleb Tsipursky

June 1, 2006
Seeing in Black and White: Why it's not so cut-and-dried; Alan Gilchrist; 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0606-42

December 23, 2008Health
Feds' pot grower talks shop--but who can get his weed?: Unless you have an Rx and live in a state with a medical marijuana provision, the federal government won’t let you grow or possess your own pot.; Jordan Lite

February 1, 2008
Uncovering "Brainscams": In which the authors debunk myths concerning the three-pound organ inside our head; Scott O. Lilienfeld and Hal Arkowitz; 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0208-80; Originally published as "Facts and Fictions in Mental Health" in

April 26, 2011
Why Doctors Should Be More Empathetic--But Not Too Much More: Research is revealing what goes on in the brains of health care workers when they see patients as objects; Omar Sultan Haque and Adam Waytz

November 1, 2016
Why Math Education in the U.S. Doesn't Add Up: Research shows that an emphasis on memorization, rote procedures and speed impairs learning and achievement; Jo Boaler and Pablo Zoido; 10.1038/scientificamericanmind1116-18; Originally published as "Why Math Education in the U.S. Doesn't Add Up" in

November 25, 2021Psychology
‘Constructive Arguing’ Can Help Keep the Peace at Your Thanksgiving Table: People with different perspectives don’t have to butt heads; James M. Honeycutt and The Conversation US

September 1, 2018
The Cultural Origins of Language: What makes language distinctly human; Christine Kenneally; 10.1038/scientificamerican0918-54; Originally published as "Talking through Time" in

June 24, 2020Mind & Brain
A Poetic, Mind-Bending Tour of the Fungal World: Author Merlin Sheldrake shows how this neglected kingdom is essential for life on earth; Gareth Cook

February 1, 2008Technology
The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine: The accelerating pace of technological progress means that our intelligent creations will soon eclipse us--and that their creations will eventually eclipse them.; Ray Kurzweil; Your Future with Robots; 10.1038/scientificamerican0208-20sp

March 23, 2009Mind & Brain
The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine: The accelerating pace of technological progress means that our intelligent creations will soon eclipse us--and that their creations will eventually eclipse them; Ray Kurzweil

October 31, 2018Neuroscience
Falling Walls: Social Relationships as a Spatial Problem: The hippocampus appears to keep track of social dynamics just as it tracks us moving physically through real spaces; Daniela Schiller

October 24, 2016Behavior
Air Rage as a Study in Contrasts: Air rage is more frequent in plane cabins that emphasize seating inequality; Susana Martinez-Conde

May 16, 2010Biology
New evidence that fMRI experiments are valid measure of neuron activity: Among the more than a quarter of a million published functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies are assays that have purported to locate our mental experiences of religion, love and even the future in the brain...; Katherine Harmon

May 3, 2013Health
Your Smartphone Just Diagnosed You with Postpartum Depression: Depending on your perspective, Twitter can either be a valuable source of breaking news, or a fire hose of miscellaneous, often dubious information. Microsoft researchers are investigating whether the microblogging service could serve another, more scientific function—to spot signs of postpartum depression in new mothers based on changes in how and what they tweet.The research is in its early stages and in some ways relies heavily on data that’s easy to misinterpret...; Larry Greenemeier

April 6, 2009Mind & Brain
Is wisdom in the brain?: Some of us look for wisdom in the Bible, Plato or at Grandma's knee. Dilip Jeste and his colleague Thomas Meeks are searching for it in the brain.

Jeste and Meeks, both geriatric psychiatrists at the University of California, San Diego, hypothesize in the Archives of General Psychiatry that wisdom, or at least the execution of its attributes, can be found in the brain's primitive limbic system as well as its more evolutionarily advanced prefrontal cortex...; Jordan Lite

January 20, 2009Mind & Brain
Do men or women have an easier time resisting food?: Men have more willpower than women when it comes to resisting food, a small new study suggests.

"We didn’t expect such striking differences between males and females," study co-author Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, tells ScientificAmerican.com ...; Jordan Lite

February 10, 2009Mind & Brain
My genes made me invest: DNA implicated in financial risk-taking: Do you squander all your dough at the casino? Maybe it's because your DNA is telling you to take risks with your money.

OK, it's not as simplistic as that.; Jordan Lite

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