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Exhaustion At Work Can Lead to Difficulty Controlling Emotions, Scientists Say
If a hard day in the office leaves you crabby and uncooperative, you may have an excuse: scientists say exercising self-restraint can exhaust parts of the brain related to decision-making and impulse control, leaving you
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One Change I Made to My Social Media Use Made a Big Difference on My Mood
I was listening to the podcast “The TryPod,” when cohost Zach Kornfeld mentioned he had swapped checking his phone first thing in the morning for a game of pickleball. The switch had made his morning
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Why Disasters Like Hurricanes Milton and Helene Unleash So Much Misinformation
While Florida recovers from Hurricane Milton, the second dangerous storm to hit the U.S. Southeast in just a couple of weeks, a flood of misinformation threatens to compound the disasters. A major target of false
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Being Empathetic Is Easier when Everyone’s Doing It
As a grid of video feeds blinks into view, attendees across the country prepare for an ideological collision. All have signed up for a virtual forum billed as an “empathy cafe,” held to spark dialogue
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Gen Z Has Regrets
Was social media a good invention? One way to quantify the value of a product is to find out how many of the people who use it wish it had never been invented. Feelings of
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What ‘Inside Out 2’ Teaches Us About Anxiety
At the end of “Inside Out,” the 2015 Pixar movie about the emotional life of a girl named Riley, a new button appears on the console used to control Riley’s mood. … So he dug
