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New Achievement in a Brain-Injured Boxer's Rehabilitation

In a complex multi-movement therapy program, a severely brain-injured boxer achieved standing, walking, running, and trampoline bouncing. It was time to try riding an exercise bike.

In a complex multi-movement therapy program, a severely brain-injured boxer achieved standing, walking, running, and trampoline bouncing. It was time to try riding an exercise bike.

Can You Explain the Difference Between Naughty and Nice?

Morality, God, Jesus, Santa, Moral absolutism vs. moral relativism—the holidays are a great time to reflect on the difference between naughty and nice.

Morality, God, Jesus, Santa, Moral absolutism vs. moral relativism—the holidays are a great time to reflect on the difference between naughty and nice.

What the Condition of Your Office Says About You

Dressing to impress involves more than clothes. Research reveals how your space represents yourself.

Dressing to impress involves more than clothes. Research reveals how your space represents yourself.

There Is Freedom Without Free Will

Personal Perspective: Arguments on free will miss the point. Their determinism excludes the mind, the basis of ultimate freedom.

Personal Perspective: Arguments on free will miss the point. Their determinism excludes the mind, the basis of ultimate freedom.

What Santa Can Teach Us About Personality

What makes Santa the ultimate holiday icon? Discover the surprising psychology behind the cheerful and calm demeanor.

What makes Santa the ultimate holiday icon? Discover the surprising psychology behind the cheerful and calm demeanor.

Are You Missing What's Right in Front of You?

Ever focus so hard on one thing that you miss everything else? Learn how to balance focus and awareness to spot hidden opportunities and joys in life.

Ever focus so hard on one thing that you miss everything else? Learn how to balance focus and awareness to spot hidden opportunities and joys in life.

Is Voting Good for Your Health?

Can one person's vote make a difference? Yes — to society and to the person's physical and mental health.

Can one person's vote make a difference? Yes — to society and to the person's physical and mental health.

How to Learn (or Teach) Something New

What’s the best way to learn or to teach something new? A few recent studies suggest some surprising twists on the received wisdom.

What’s the best way to learn or to teach something new? A few recent studies suggest some surprising twists on the received wisdom.

Recognize the Power of Your Unconscious Influence

Are you aware of the unseen ways you're shaping others online? Your posts have the power to shape minds and influence behavior. Learn how to use your influence for good.

Are you aware of the unseen ways you're shaping others online? Your posts have the power to shape minds and influence behavior. Learn how to use your influence for good.

The Phenomenon of Acquired Brain Injury Recovery

By examining the lived experience of recovery from acquired brain injury, we can learn much about brain plasticity and resilience as well as the importance of perserverence.

By examining the lived experience of recovery from acquired brain injury, we can learn much about brain plasticity and resilience as well as the importance of perserverence.

Perfectionism: Recalibrating the Longing to Be Perfect

Is perfectionism always problematic? Does it make a difference whether the drive for perfection is self-directed, other-oriented, or socially driven?

Is perfectionism always problematic? Does it make a difference whether the drive for perfection is self-directed, other-oriented, or socially driven?

Why It's OK to Let Kids Quit Sometimes

Deciding what's worth sticking with is part of growing up.

Deciding what's worth sticking with is part of growing up.

Transcending the Matrix

Do we live in a physicalist universe or is it a conscious illusion?

Do we live in a physicalist universe or is it a conscious illusion?

Can Artifical Intelligence Be Conscious?

Can artificial intelligence become conscious? How do we test this? What does this mean for society?

Can artificial intelligence become conscious? How do we test this? What does this mean for society?

Transforming Opportunity Into Luck

Have you ever wondered why some people seem to catch all the breaks while others struggle despite their hard work? Is it mere luck, or is there something more to it?

Have you ever wondered why some people seem to catch all the breaks while others struggle despite their hard work? Is it mere luck, or is there something more to it?

Unpacking a Dream of Fours

Personal perspective: How analyzing a dream illustrates why the appearance of numbers in a dream can connect you to memories of both people and your past.

Personal perspective: How analyzing a dream illustrates why the appearance of numbers in a dream can connect you to memories of both people and your past.

What Donald Trump’s Most Loyal Followers May Have in Common

A new study investigates the personality characteristics that distinguish Donald Trump’s strongest supporters from other voters.

A new study investigates the personality characteristics that distinguish Donald Trump’s strongest supporters from other voters.

Collector Personality and Life Satisfaction

We are all chasing life satisfaction. Until recently, little was known about what personality traits contribute to it. Let's examine new information about collectors.

We are all chasing life satisfaction. Until recently, little was known about what personality traits contribute to it. Let's examine new information about collectors.

Rethinking the Language of Cancer: Lessons from Laura

When someone is dying of cancer, the language of "winning the battle" and "beating" the disease can be hurtful and harmful.

When someone is dying of cancer, the language of "winning the battle" and "beating" the disease can be hurtful and harmful.

Explaining the NBC Theory of Consciousness

Consciousness emerges from interactions of neural representation, binding, coherence, and competition.

Consciousness emerges from interactions of neural representation, binding, coherence, and competition.

Transforming the Ordinary into the Extraordinary

Many people considered Peter Drucker a genius. He favored crediting common virtues like accountability, conscientiousness, and workmanship.

Many people considered Peter Drucker a genius. He favored crediting common virtues like accountability, conscientiousness, and workmanship.

Winston Churchill: A Military Scene as a First Memory of Life

Winston Churchill's first memory of life involves a splendid opportunity for adventure and fulfillment.

Winston Churchill's first memory of life involves a splendid opportunity for adventure and fulfillment.

Checks and Balances Explain Everything You Love and Hate

It takes two to tango, entangle, and sustain-go. Mutual balanced limitations sustain marriages, arguments, wars, and governments.

It takes two to tango, entangle, and sustain-go. Mutual balanced limitations sustain marriages, arguments, wars, and governments.

The Problem With Altruism

Navigating the delicate balance between selflessness and self-interest. From the evolutionary roots of altruism to its modern-day manifestations.

Navigating the delicate balance between selflessness and self-interest. From the evolutionary roots of altruism to its modern-day manifestations.

Keeping the Peace: Handling Criticism From Your Housemates

Our housemates see it all. When they complain about our habits, the criticism feels deeply personal. How do you keep the peace while navigating tensions and hurt feelings?

Our housemates see it all. When they complain about our habits, the criticism feels deeply personal. How do you keep the peace while navigating tensions and hurt feelings?

Apologies: Why People Don’t Always Give or Get Them

Children benefit from parents’ encouragement and instruction on how to offer a sincere apology to those they have hurt.

Children benefit from parents’ encouragement and instruction on how to offer a sincere apology to those they have hurt.

Why It Can Be So Hard to Talk About Race

When habits, customs, and laws codify white fragility, how do we learn to have authentic dialogues about racial injustice? It's time for courageous conversations about race.

When habits, customs, and laws codify white fragility, how do we learn to have authentic dialogues about racial injustice? It's time for courageous conversations about race.

Staying Vigilant to Maintain Recovery from Addiction

Threats to maintaining abstinence from alcohol and other drugs can arise at any time. Here's how to guard against them.

Threats to maintaining abstinence from alcohol and other drugs can arise at any time. Here's how to guard against them.

Talent Is Underrated

We need a much more honest and nuanced discussion about the role of talent in life outcomes.

We need a much more honest and nuanced discussion about the role of talent in life outcomes.

Working From Home Is Not Working for Everyone

Working from home can bring with it risks to mental health and productivity, unless one is intrinsically motivated.

Working from home can bring with it risks to mental health and productivity, unless one is intrinsically motivated.