Brain fog has many possible causes, and a major ginkgo trial did not prevent…
Billions spent yearly on supplements and apps claim to clear the fog, but the evidence suggests a more mundane reality: sleep better, see a doctor, and skip the ginkgo.
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The self-improvement industry sells becoming your best self through grit and…
Decades of research deflate two pillars of the self-help empire: grit and growth mindset deliver far less transformation than their billion-dollar marketing suggests.
Most advice on becoming happier assumes it is up to you, but the evidence is…
The happiness industry has it backwards: your mood is far less malleable than self-help gurus claim, and the one reliable lever has nothing to do with your morning routine.
Being self-absorbed is usually heard as an insult, but decades of psychology…
Your brain is hardwired to treat you as the main character in everyone else's story—a perceptual bias so universal it shapes how we judge ourselves and misread the world.
Research suggests that the most warm and generous people are sometimes the…
You will probably know someone like this.
An elderly man in London lost his wife and then his son, and didn’t know what to…
When grief hollowed him out, running became his only answer—and a hundred-year-old man became the first of his age to cross a marathon finish line.
Steven Levitt ran an experiment with more than 20,000 coin tosses over decisions…
A randomized coin-toss study suggests we're trapped by sunk costs more than we realize—and that sometimes the best decision is the one we're too afraid to make.
Adults who apologise for taking up space in a photograph, a booth, or a…
The adult who slides out of the group photo or apologises for the size of their order isn't modest — they're running a survival strategy that outlived the room that required it.
Why intelligent people can still feel lonely in a crowded room
Research suggests that sociability and a preference for solitude can coexist, but intelligence alone does not explain persistent loneliness or a need for deeper conversation.
The fear that happiness fades with age is one of social science’s most repeated…
A decades-long belief about midlife misery crumbles as new data reveals that distress actually declines steadily with age.
The barrier to starting a conversation is usually a bad forecast, not a lack of…
We systematically underestimate how much strangers enjoy talking to us—a gap that grows wider the more we let anxiety decide whether to start a conversation.
Attraction behaves less like a fixed physical fact than a running judgement: in…
What kills desire isn't neediness or availability—it's what your choices reveal about who you actually are.