Research Articles
The Upside of Down: How Your Brain's 'Negatives' Develop a Positive Life
Discover how neuroscience reveals that negative experiences are essential for building resilience, intelligence, and a fulfilling life.
Why You Love That Cozy Chair: Your Stone-Age Brain is the Designer
Explore how our ancient evolutionary instincts shape modern design preferences, from architecture to digital interfaces.
The Memory of You: How Your Life Story Gets Woven Into Your Very Biology
Explore the bio-psycho-social model of autobiographical memory and discover how your brain, psychology, and social context shape your life story.
Why Human Evolution Should Be Essential Learning for Every Health Professional
Discover why understanding human evolution is crucial for medicine and psychology students to diagnose, treat, and prevent modern diseases.
The Mind-Reading Machine: How Our Social Brains Became Fortune Tellers
Explore how the evolution of social predictive brains transformed humans into master forecasters of social interactions through theory of mind and cognitive development.
The Peaceful Pen: How Writing Can Heal Our Deepest Divides
Explore how reflective writing can help bridge philosophical and religious divides by calming our brain's threat response to conflicting beliefs.
Evolution is Everywhere: How a Simple Biological Idea Explains Our Entire World
Explore how evolutionary theory extends beyond biology to explain human behavior, culture, and society through engaging experiments and data visualizations.
Unlocking Behavior: How Genetics is Rewriting the Rules of Human Nature
Discover how behavior genetics is revolutionizing our understanding of human nature through groundbreaking research on genetic and environmental influences.
The First 60 Seconds: The Hidden Science of a Powerful Opening
Explore the cognitive science behind effective introductory remarks and how the first 60 seconds determine communication success.
The Learning Instinct: How Evolution Pre-Programmed Your Brain for Survival
Explore how evolution has shaped our learning capabilities through adaptive specializations, from taste aversions to fear responses.