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psychology

Life

Chicks link shapes with 'bouba' and 'kiki' sounds just like humans

Humans from many cultures tend to associate the nonsense words “bouba” and “kiki” with different shapes – and now it seems that 3-day-old chicks have the same inclinations

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Humans

These scientific rules of connection can supercharge your social life

Features

Waiter taking order from customers at a restaurant

Environment

The behavioural science that can help us choose more sustainable foods

Features

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Mind

How the US used science to wage psychological war

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Illustration of a computer screen showing words including disinformation and fake

Technology

Chatbots can persuade conspiracy theorists their view might be wrong

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Mind

How science can inspire 'peak experiences' that improve well-being

Regulars

Are you languishing in life? Here’s how to find your purpose again

Mind

Are you languishing in life? Here’s how to find your purpose again

Features

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - JANUARY 31: Members of the public walk past a government poster reminding people to socially distance and abide by the lockdown restrictions in the city center on January 29, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. This week, nearly 104,000 have died due to covid-19 in the United Kingdom, according to the Office for National Statistics and its counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland. The agencies registered an additional 7,776 deaths with coronavirus cited on the death certificate in the most recent week. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Mind

Why do some people experience anxiety more intensely than others?

Features

How neuroscience can help you make tough decisions - with no regrets

Humans

How neuroscience can help you make tough decisions - with no regrets

Features

Conspiracy theories

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Conspiracy theories

It is easy to dismiss conspiracy theories as unhinged beliefs held by a small number of paranoid idiots, but that seriously underestimates them. Belief in conspiracy theories is very widespread, the product of normal human psychology, and extremely influential and dangerous.

Comment

Troubled by Faith review: How delusion marked psychology's beginnings

Culture

Mind

How AI avatars of the deceased could transform the way we grieve

Features

Health

Can a single therapy session nudge us towards better mental health?

Regulars

Mind

Professional goalkeepers perceive the world differently

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