Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: National University of Singapore
Selling access to rewards programs that offer cash for meeting weight loss goals may incentivize program participants to lose more weight, new research suggests.
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- Written by: Yasmin Anwar, University of California, Berkeley
Puberty hormones might impede some aspects of flexible youthful learning, a study with female mice suggests.
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- Written by: Rebecca Nutbrown, UCL
Understanding how the human brain works is one of the most important goals of science. And one of the first steps to uncovering its secrets lies in working out how the brain is actually organized.
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- Written by: Alisson Clark, University of Florida
When leaders abuse their power over others, they end up feeling the negative effects, too, a new study suggests.
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- Written by: Carl Greer PhD, PsyD
Many people have intuited that nature has healing powers, but now researchers are discovering more about how our bodies and minds benefit from our interactions with nature.
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- Written by: Charles Eisenstein
Addiction studies involving caged lab rats reveal disturbing insights about human nature and societal control. By contrasting these experiments with Bruce Alexander's findings of rats thriving in social environments, the article challenges the moralistic views of addiction and explores the implications for the War on Drugs and human well-being. A shift towards compassion and understanding could redefine societal structures.
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- Written by: Julie Sloane, University of Pennsylvania
People with loosely knit Facebook friend groups—small numbers of friends who don’t know each other well—tend to react more dynamically when excluded in real-world social situations, a new study suggests.
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- Written by: Emily Velasco, California Institute of Technology
Men who took high doses of testosterone performed worse on a test designed to measure cognitive reflection—the process in which we stop to consider if our gut reactions are right.
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- Written by: Angie Hunt, Iowa State University
Six decades of research suggest the effect of media violence on aggressive behavior is the same across different cultures.
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- Written by: Crystal Ponti, YES! Magazine
It is so common for self-employed people to have ADHD, the disorder could be renamed “the entrepreneur’s trait.”
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- Written by: Jill Rosen, Johns Hopkins University
Low-income black students who have at least one black teacher in elementary school are significantly more likely to graduate from high school and consider college, research shows.
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- Written by: Master Charles Cannon with Will T. Wilkinson
Hibernating animals awaken in spring. Likewise, humanity has been asleep, mired in illusion, and it is now awakening. We glimpsed this truth in our winter dream; now millions of us stir, awaken, and begin to build our truthful experience.
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- Written by: Jude Bijou, M.A., M.F.T.
With the avalanche of unkind words and deeds engulfing our lives today, it's time to buck the trend and resist. The goal is to move from judgment and feelings of separation to acceptance and connection. Acts of kindness are what will get us there.
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- Written by: Sam Bennett
I work hard to refrain from judging other people, even when they are making it very, very hard to not judge them. I have come to realize that judgment is not really my job.
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- Written by: Liz Entman, Vanderbilt University
Gender plays a significant role in the relationship between a person’s weight and the socioeconomic status of the people in their lives, research suggests.
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- Written by: John Ptacek
Believing is as automatic as walking or talking or sneezing, and about as noteworthy. Deprived of our-ists and -isms, would we behave differently than we do now? Who would we be without our beliefs?
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- Written by: David Orenstein, Brown University
A new study shows that some people have a mild but consistent set of tendencies to take the quicker and simpler path when thinking about logical challenges, the people around them, the societies they live in, and even spirituality.
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- Written by: James Devitt, New York University, University of Illinois
By the age of six, girls become less likely than boys to associate brilliance with their own gender and are more likely to avoid anything they think may require it.
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- Written by: Melissa Matthews
Have you ever wondered why you were prone to bouts of moodiness or why you were always so easy going? Turns out personality could be linked to brain shape, according to new research.
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- Written by: Agnieszka Golec de Zavala, Goldsmiths, University of London
Consider slogans such as “Make America great again”, used by Donald Trump, or “Take back control”, used by the Brexit campaign. Both slogans were the perfect pitch to mobilize what are called collective narcissists.
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- Written by: Rod Lamberts, Australian National University
Many public conversations we have about science-related issues involve communicating risks: describing them, comparing them and trying to inspire action to avoid or mitigate them.
