Money problems feel like a mental burden. What research now shows is that they are also a...
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In 2008, a pair of psychologists named Lawrence Williams and John Bargh published a study in Science...
The conventional account of impulse buying goes something like this: a person lacks self-discipline, sees something appealing,...
Touch is the first sense to develop in the human fetus — present and functional by eight...
In 2013, a team of researchers published a paper in Science that upended a long-standing assumption about...
The email you meant to send sits at the back of your mind during the meeting. The...
In 2011, a team of researchers at University College London published findings from an experiment in which...
Economists spent most of the twentieth century building models on a foundational assumption: that people make financial...
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John Nash, whose mathematical intuition was so extraordinary that it changed the field of game theory and...