People use values and beliefs as a shortcut to determine how risky an activity is during the pandemic. Those biases can lead people astray.
Scientists believed we evolved to respond to alarming screams faster than non-alarming ones, but experiments show our brains may be wired differently.
People default to addition when solving puzzles and problems, even when subtraction works better. That could underlie some modern-day excesses.
The first survey comparing parental exhaustion across 42 countries links it to a culture of self-reliance.
Peach-colored bandages label dark-skinned patients as outside the norm, says med student Linda Oyesiku. Brown bandages expand who gets to be normal.
The idea that more kinds of rare birds are seen when birders flock to where one has been seen, the so-called Patagonia Picnic Table Effect, is a myth.
Boredom contributes to pandemic fatigue and may account for why some people don’t follow social distancing rules.
College students struggled with mental health problems before the pandemic. Now, some vulnerable students are even more at risk.
Experiments with bonobos suggest that humans aren’t the only ones who can feel a sense of mutual responsibility toward other members of their species.
After hours of isolation, dopamine-producing cells in the brain fire up in response to pictures of humans, showing our social side runs deep.