You can trust your own memory — right? Wrong. Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus shares decades of research showing that when it comes to remembering things, what we swear is fact is often fiction… and sometimes, the consequences of trusting our own memories are life and death. More.

According to a study at the University of Chicago, about half of all Americans say they’ve had such a [transcendent] experience, which might range from a sense of well-being while watching a sunset to a classic near-death journey. These occurrences are, necessarily, deeply personal and hard to articulate.. “What one person calls a religious experience

. . . If you’re not careful, the snacking never stops. Unless you pick the right snack, that is — something tasty enough to quell your cravings and satisfying enough to keep you from coming back for more. The key may be protein. In a 2012 study, University of Missouri researchers found that among healthy

For better or worse, corporations are considered to be people in certain ways. So why not dogs? A wildly popular recent New York Times story posits that MRI scans of dogs’ brains show that dogs’ ability to experience emotion is about equal to that of a human child. More.

Gregory Berns, a professor of neuroscience at Emory University, recently published a column in The New York Times explaining the results of an ongoing study that suggests dogs have human-like emotions. By examining MRI scans of dogs’ brains, Berns found that the structure of their caudate nucleus is very similar to that of humans. The

Fifty Shades of Grey may be a fun read, but it’s not going to help you probe the minds of others the way War and Peace might. That’s the conclusion of a new study, which finds that, compared with mainstream fiction, high-brow literary works do more to improve our ability to understand the thoughts, emotions,