Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, is the author of 7½ Lessons About the Brain. She offers some eyebrow-raising ideas in the book, and it’s a fun, fast, fascinating read—I highly recommended it. An important point she makes early in the book is that the brain’s...
A friend of mine is taking a masterclass on fashion and came across an interesting piece of research about what happens in the brain when we wear certain types of attire. A researcher had subjects wear a white coat that they believed belonged to a doctor. Those who...
William Muir is an evolutionary biologist who was studying what would increase the egg-laying productivity of chickens. His hypothesis was that by continually breeding the Super-Chickens of the flock generation after generation, one would progressively develop a...
Wouldn’t it be interesting if we could peek inside people’s brains? Well, in a way, it turns out we actually can. And that’s because our EYES are actually a part of our brains. During development in utero, our eyes get squeezed outside of the skull, but they are...
There are several studies on group cooperation that showed that people can be twice as likely to be helpful to another when they’ve experienced some level of behavioral synchrony. Behavioral synchrony simply means that our behaviors match or mirror one another. These...
