Some believe financial constraints lead people to escape into happy fantasies. Research shows the opposite: scarcity can rob the ability to enjoy pleasurable thoughts.

Someone asked “What scares you the most about the next generation?” and people shared the possibly toxic traits and behaviors they’ve noticed.

Cognitive warfare technologies now model and simulate human behavior at scale, raising concerns about autonomous digital ...

It has long been known as the arbiter of reward in the brain, but recent findings could upend this classic theory of dopamine ...

Reflecting on the strength model of self-control, some criticisms of the model, and some of the adjustments that have emerged ...

When a virus infects a bacterial cell, the viral genome is the first component to be fully injected into the cell, making it an ideal immune target. A bacterial enzyme anchored to the membrane ...

Research in health psychology has increasingly highlighted the pivotal role that executive functions play in human health and wellbeing. Executive ...

Functional connectivity reveals brain attractors that match predictions of free‑energy‑minimizing attractor theory, yielding an interpretable generative model of brain dynamics in rest, task, and ...