What Curiosity Looks Like in the Brain
Research suggests that, like food and sex, information is inherently rewarding to the brain.
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How Gratitude Helps Your Friendships Grow
Research suggests that gratitude plays a quiet, key role in building a relationship.
Why Do People Do Bad Things?
In Behave, Robert Sapolsky offers an inspired synthesis of how biology shapes human behavior—both the good and the bad.
Why Your Brain Needs to Dream
Research shows that dreaming is not just a byproduct of sleep, but serves its own important functions in our well-being.
How Awe Brings People Together
A series of experiments suggest that awe causes us to have a smaller sense of self, which shapes our social networks in positive ways.
Are Emotions Born or Made?
A new book argues that our brains forge emotions from lived experience. But does it go too far?
Does Your Voice Reveal More Emotion Than Your Face?
New research compares how well we can read other people’s emotions in their voices and faces.
The Evolution of Gratitude
How did gratitude evolve? Researchers are starting to trace this common human emotion all the way back to primate behavior.