Human Behaviour
Mind & Meaning
Psychology and the human experience under pressure. From the introvert who needs three days alone after a party to the astronaut managing isolation on the ISS — Mind & Meaning explores how people make sense of themselves and others, and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
Psychology
People who are truly pleasant and kind but have no close friends often spent…
Human Factors
Changing your mind publicly can reflect intellectual humility, not intelligence…
Psychology
A major experience-sampling study found that people’s minds wandered during 46.9…
Psychology
Most of the matter in the universe has never been observed directly, and the…
Science & Engineering
Most of what we call "memory" isn't a recording of what happened
Human Factors
Intellectual humility is measurable and has been linked to better calibration and…
Human Factors
The single oldest non-clonal living thing on Earth is a bristlecone pine called…
Human Factors
Most professional mathematicians, when describing the moment a difficult proof…
Psychology
AI can now read your emotional state in a shop, adapt what it shows you in real…
Human Behaviour
Women's sense of smell is roughly 50% more sensitive than men's on average, and the…
Space & Missions
Later-life curiosity is associated with some measures of healthier ageing, but it…
Human Behaviour
Female brains have measurably more connections between the two hemispheres, and…
Human Behaviour
Australian Aboriginal songlines preserve navigational and cultural knowledge across…
Human Factors
Submarine crews and astronauts experience the same set of psychological pressures…
Human Behaviour