Human Nature
Human Nature encompasses peoples' actions, perceptions, and thought processes. Topics include food cravings, mind-reading, and contagious yawning.
Freudenfreude Is the Joyous Opposite of Schadenfreude
Feeling Blue? This Kid-run Hotline Will Lift Your Spirits
Embracing Ennui: How Boredom Can Be Good for You
9 Hangover Cures From Around the World
Can you really feel the weather in your bones?
10 Myths About Body Fat
Not So Funny: The Mysterious 1962 Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic
Shinrin-yoku: The Soothing Practice of Forest Bathing
6 Ways Reading a Book Beats Reading Digitally, Hands Down
Why Is the Term 'Gaslighting' So Popular Now ─ and So Misused?
Feel Like a Fraud, Despite Your Success? You Might Have Impostor Syndrome
Study Highlights Unique Stereotypes About Biracial Americans
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Spankings are common and legal in many public schools — but experts say they don't work. So why are they still a form of discipline?
By Julia Layton
If you ran into a chainsaw-swinging psychopath, you’d probably remember. But what about everyday pscyhopaths?
Throwing games to make kids happy may negatively affect their ability to make important decisions — even if it does boost their self-esteem.
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After you try this pungent party trick, you'll never doubt the power of garlic.
According to doctors, injecting cooking oil into your muscles to make them appear larger does not work, could possibly kill you.
One bad apple may indeed spoil the whole bunch, especially if it's a bunch of adolescent siblings and one of them is delinquent.
You may have thought shotgun marriages died out following the era of peace, free love and rock 'n' roll, but in some groups, they're actually rising.
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Urine for a shock when you learn how much pee is in the average public pool. Even Olympic swimmers admit to peeing in the pool -- just like you and me.
Just about every nation and culture has its own special alcoholic beverage — and its own hangover cure. Some may actually work while others may just make you sicker. Which one of these will you try?
We blink our eyes so often, yet we usually don’t perceive that the world has gone dark, if only for a microsecond. Why is that?
Statistics show people have a strange tendency to overestimate the female presence. What are the actual stats behind the "too many women" complaint?
By Julia Layton
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A writer test-drives advice on running her life according to her biological body clock with some surprising results.
By Alia Hoyt
Who hasn't wanted to get away from it all? For British designer Thomas Thwaites, that break entailed turning himself into a goat.
An update to a famous study shows that employers may not discriminate as much as before — with one important caveat.
Whither the Good Samaritan? A new study finds the chance of receiving a stranger's aid in a public medical emergency is close to zero — and worse if you're black or poor.
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Most animals don't feel shame, but humans do. Why would we evolve something that causes us pain, stress and discomfort?
With 20 percent of U.S. women born after 1970 not having children, the question of who will provide elder care is becoming more urgent.
By Dave Roos
And you probably don't even realize you're doing it.
By John Donovan
If you've ever met someone who obsessively kept track of every perceived wrong committed against them, then you've met one. The problem is when they turn violent.
By Julia Layton
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Audio description is kind of like that friend who whispers key plot points to you during the movie when you miss them. It's pretty handy for blind film buffs.
By Julia Layton
"Look on the bright side!" It's advice people have been doling out for ages, but could a positive outlook actually benefit your physical well-being?
Are you a human barometer? Do changes in the weather cause you physical pain? Read this and find out if you can really feel the weather right down to your bones.
Girls have better taste than boys — as in the sense, that is. Find out why women's ability to distinguish between sweet and sour trumps mens'.
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It's no rinky-dink Mickey Mouse clock. The body clock is a strange and wonderful thing, calibrated to reflect a variety of biological rhythms that you may not have known are beating inside your body. And scientists are still not sure why it exists.
By Chris Opfer
Could your ancestors be to blame for your overeating or excess spending? Unnecessary scapegoating is a lousy thing to do, but could there be some weight to this suggestion?
By Bambi Turner