Research on regret shows that people are surprisingly adept at coming to terms with their mistakes—they stick with things they never tried.
Regret comes quickly and sharply in the first hours after a bad…
The study collected forty million responses to a question with no correct answer: should a self-driving car sacrifice the few to save the many?
The trolley problem has been a staple of undergraduate philosophy courses for…
Research on narcissism shows that high self-esteem and narcissistic traits are not the same thing—and researchers now have a surprisingly effective way to tell the difference.
Think about the most confident person you know. The one who walks…
Research published in Psychological Science shows that we consistently underestimate how much strangers enjoy talking to us — and the gap is bigger than most people realize.
Two people are talking at a business event or orientation week or…
Behavioral science suggests people are reluctant to reach out for fear of intruding — but shoppers report feeling something closer to gratitude in study after study.
Think back to almost the last message you sent. That old friend…
A Pew survey of 6,000 Americans found that most people still call their moms first when life gets tough.
When something goes seriously wrong, there’s usually one person you want to…
Psychology says that the generation that grew up in the 1970s had a rare form of mental resilience because they were the last generation to be allowed to fail, get hurt, and figure it out without adult intervention.
There is a certain type of person if you know what to…
The sites that everyone visited when they were bored before social media took over
Boredom was something you had to solve yourself before anyone made a…
A blog about weird Etsy products that people don’t believe is real
What’s the right way to respond to a hand-touched portrait of a…
The researchers asked older adults with and without cognitive impairment to copy a sentence from a flashcard, then write one from dictation—only the second task revealed a clear difference between the groups.
Most of us have a vague intuition that something an older person…
