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How to overcome your mistakes

Adults Psychology
Explore what prevents us from learning from our failures, and how to become more resilient through cultivating a growth mindset.

The Single Most Important Parenting Strategy

Adults Psychology
Everyone loses their temper from time to time — but the stakes are dizzyingly high when the focus of your fury is your own child.

The Weight of “Nothing” Could Mean Everything (to Physics)

Adults Psychology
Deep in a Sardinian mine, researchers are constructing an experiment that hopes to solve what's known as The Worst Prediction In The History of Physics, and pin down the true identity of dark energy.

How to enter flow state

Adults Psychology
Explore the defining features of being in a flow state, and get tips on how you can find flow in your daily life.

Is Someone You Love Suffering in Silence? Here's What To Do | Gus Worland | TED

Adults Psychology
Lots of people talk about the need to be physically fit, but mentally fit? Not as much.

How to Calm Your Anxiety, From a Neuroscientist

Adults Psychology
What if you could transform your anxiety into something you can actually use during your work day? Neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki shares two evidence-based activities -- breathing and movement -- that can soothe your nervous system and fuel creativity and connection.

This one weird trick will get you infinite gold - Dan Finkel

Adults Psychology
A few years ago, the king decided your life would be forfeit unless you tripled the gold coins in his treasury.

Truth Decay

Adults Psychology
Trust is eroding, in part, due to the over-abundance of opinion-based content; we must all develop better tools and habits for consuming information to regain a shared understanding of what is true.

How Smart Are Crows Actually?

Adults Psychology
Have you seen that adorable clip of a raven sledding down a snowy roof? We have, so we took a deep dive into how crows and other corvids exhibit tool use, intelligence, and maybe even consciousness.

The Habit That Could Improve Your Career

Adults Psychology
Paul Catchlove believes strongly in the power of reflection.

3 Steps To Help Kids Process Traumatic Events

Adults Psychology
What do we say to kids when intensely traumatic events interrupt everyday life? Whether you're a teacher, parent or community builder, educator Kristen Nguyen provides three research-backed steps for navigating these difficult conversations, restoring a sense of safety and facilitating collective healing.

160,439 People Agree With Me, 64,831 Disagree

Adults Psychology
For decades, the Sleeping Beauty Problem has divided people between two answers.

How to deal with rejection

Adults Psychology
Dig into the psychology of why rejection causes us pain, and explore strategies to cope with this common experience.

Who are you, really? The puzzle of personality | Brian Little

Adults Psychology
What makes you, you? Psychologists like to talk about our traits, or defined characteristics that make us who we are.

How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed

Adults Psychology
You're not at your best when you're stressed. In fact, your brain has evolved over millennia to release cortisol in stressful situations, inhibiting rational, logical thinking but potentially helping you survive, say, being attacked by a lion.

Why do you want to squeeze cute things?

Adults Psychology
Explore the psychology of the phenomenon known as cute aggression, which is the urge to squeeze, bite or pinch something cute.

You Don’t Actually Know What Your Future Self Wants | Shankar Vedantam | TED

Adults Psychology
"You are constantly becoming a new person," says journalist Shankar Vendantam. In a talk full of beautiful storytelling, he explains the profound impact of something he calls the "illusion of continuity" -- the belief that our future selves will share the same views, perspectives and hopes as our current selves -- and shows how we can more proactively craft the people we are to become.

Why you procrastinate even when it feels bad

Adults Psychology
Explore what happens in the brain to trigger procrastination, and what strategies you can use to break the cycle of this harmful practice.

Why the US Keeps Trying To Buy Greenland

Adults Psychology
Professional slackliner Faith Dickey attempts things that plenty of us wouldn't dare try. How about traversing a slackline barely 2 inches in width across a canyon, hundreds of feet in the air?

Why can parrots talk? - Grace Smith-Vidaurre and Tim Wright

Adults Psychology
Explore the specialized anatomy that allows parrots to talk, scream, curse, and recite facts like humans.

The Actual Reason Men Die First

Adults Psychology
Because females often outlive males, behavior is often blamed - but there is a decent chance our sex chromosomes might be to blame instead.