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In Defense of Daydreaming
Whenever I have a few moments of down time — every weekday, for instance, when I’m waiting in the car pool pickup line for my children at camp — I grab my phone and check
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The Nocturnals
… According to most psychologists, humans are inherently social creatures; contact with others isn’t just a want—it’s a need. Deprived of it, people’s physical and mental health tends to decline. But the nocturnal people I
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Spark Creativity with Thomas Edison’s Napping Technique
Thomas Edison was famously opposed to sleeping. In an 1889 interview published in Scientific American, the ever energetic inventor of the lightbulb claimed he never slept more than four hours a night. Sleep was, he thought, a waste
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The (Literally) Effortless Way to Learn Faster and Improve Your Memory, Backed by Science
We all have things we need to remember. A pitch. A presentation. Material for a test. So you study. You read and re-read. And highlight. And re-read again. You devote what at least feel like endless hours to
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Ever Gotten Angry at Your Partner in a Dream and Woken Up Mad? You’re Not Alone.
It was not so much that My Lovely Wife got what’s called an undercut haircut — a style favored by “the youth” that features a partly shaved cranium — or that she dyed the resultant
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on hallucinatory experiences, personality and memory in older adults, belief updates across the political spectrum, culture and gender inequality and well-being, pain and pleasure, neural responses to partner’s evaluations, bedtime music, and interventions to improve their choices about sharing fake news.
