Research on how people think, feel, remember, and decide. Coverage draws on psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral science.
Nearly 20 percent of veterans have used acid, a rate that survives every demographic control, in RAND’s first nationally representative survey — which also finds roughly half don’t know whether disclosing use could cost them their VA benefits.
Brain condition challenges David Hume’s claim that abstract thought depends on mental images, forcing philosophers to reconsider how minds handle ideas like justice and geometry.
People testing AI chatbots trained on the dead preferred emotional “reincarnation” over accuracy, while warning the technology could deepen grief.
A large Australian study finds that variants in the AQP4 gene are linked to memory and brain structure in older adults at risk for Alzheimer’s. Sleep quality shaped these effects. Poor sleep worsened brain atrophy and cognitive decline in certain genotypes. The findings point to sleep as a possible way to reduce genetic risk.
