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This article follows the Direct Message methodology, designed to cut through the noise and reveal the deeper truths behind the stories we live. It’s a universal truth – most of us learn life’s ...

Anxiety about the future may come from how your brain reacts to uncertainty. Psychology reveals why the unknown feels like ...

I posted here about the wisdom to be found in literature. This goes double in light of the poor replicability of psychological experiments and the unlikelihood that the results of any particular study ...

Since the early years of this century, it has been commonplace for computerized analyses of athletic statistics to guide a baseball manager’s choice of pinch hitter, a football coach’s decision to ...

A man's refusal of his mother's homemade pickles abroad taught him a profound lesson: accepting small gestures allows loved ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Want to be a better parent, friend or colleague? There’s a simple lesson from psychologists that you can adopt right now to ...

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. Since the early years of this century, it has been commonplace for computerized analyses of athletic statistics to guide a baseball manager’s ...