Career Advice and Encouragement for College Students
Worrying less about "the major" and grades and focusing more on being good at something can ease the stress of entering the workforce.
View ArticleWhat Makes a Person Boring
There are consistent behaviors and interests that lead others to think of you as boring. What can you do to make yourself more interesting?
View ArticleWhy Male and Female Friendships Are So Different
The lives of men and women could be very different in early human groups. What are the implications of this for modern same-sex friendships?
View ArticleThe Difference Between Being Cool and Being Popular
Being cool and being popular are completely different things, and being high or low on one does not necessarily mean you will be high or low on the other.
View ArticleWho Is Willing to Risk Their Life to Save Others and Why?
Heroic actions are intuitive, even impulsive, rather than a product of thoughtful deliberation.
View ArticleHow We Really Choose Our Friends
Calling someone a "friend" elevates them to an important status in our life. How do we decide where to draw the line?
View Article3 Keys to the Power and Meaning of Eye Contact
Eye contact amplifies both positive and negative emotions. Sometimes disconcerting, sometimes welcome, our gaze says a lot.
View ArticleDoes Exceptional Success Require Sacrificing Other Things?
It is widely believed that high-achieving people must make sacrifices that undermine their relationships and well-being. Exciting new research suggests that this may not be true.
View Article5 Ways Our Intuition Leads Us Astray
Do you go with your gut and feel confident about your judgment in social situations? You may want to be just a bit more cautious.
View ArticleWhy Are We So Territorial?
There is a tendency to think of territorial behavior as a bad thing that causes conflict and aggression. In fact, exactly the opposite is often true.
View ArticleHow We Manage the Spaces in Our Lives
Human interaction would be chaotic if we were unable to exert some control over the places where we live and work. How do we manage it?
View ArticleWhy Gossip Feels So Good
It is a highly unusual person who can walk away from a juicy story about an acquaintance. Is there a chemical explanation for this?
View ArticleHow to Get Other People to Like You
Getting people to admire you can be very different from getting people to like you. Which behaviors lead to one versus the other?
View ArticleWhy "Snitching" Makes Us So Uncomfortable
The psychological tension between loyalty to the group vs. loyalty to an individual creates mixed feelings about those who implicate colleagues in wrongdoing.
View ArticleWhy We Are Suckers for Conspiracy Theories
The fact that any of us can be suckers for even the most outlandish conspiracy theory can be traced to inherent cognitive biases we all share.
View ArticleWhy We Feel Younger as We Get Older
The tendency for people to feel younger than they actually are seems to be increasing over time.
View ArticleHow Humans Came to Love Gossip So Much
It is precisely because humans are uniquely hardwired to be fascinated by gossip that we have such a tormented relationship with it.
View ArticleHow Natural Selection Turned Us Into Busybodies
Our inability to walk away from gossip is as much of a part of who we are as our inability to resist doughnuts or sex—and for the same reasons.
View ArticleWhy Helping Other People Also Helps You
Individual sacrifices for the good of the group help a group succeed; this trickles down and benefits the individuals in the group as well.
View ArticleHow Old Is "Old Enough to Die"?
What would we be willing to do, or not do, to buy more time? And how much more time would be needed to make the expense and suffering inherent in such measures worthwhile?
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