Mind & Brain Patients were told their pills were sugar pills with no medicine in them, and their symptoms still improved more than in people given nothing Oct 29 · 3 min read · PLOS ONE
Mind & Brain A smartphone study of 2,250 people found their minds were wandering almost half the time, and it made them less happy Oct 29 · 2 min read · Science
Mind & Brain After one night without sleep, the brain’s emotional alarm center reacted 60% more strongly to upsetting images Oct 29 · 3 min read · Current Biology
Mind & Brain Walking through a doorway can make you forget why you came into the room, and experiments show it is not just your imagination Oct 29 · 3 min read · Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Mind & Brain Unfinished tasks keep popping into your head, but one simple step made those intrusive thoughts disappear in experiments Oct 29 · 3 min read · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology