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The Science of Habit Formation: Why Most New Year Resolutions Fail
Roughly 80 percent of New Year resolutions are abandoned within six weeks. The reasons are not lack of willpower but bad design. Here is what neuroscience and behaviour research actually say about how habits form.
Science & HealthHow Memory Works: The Neuroscience of Why You Remember Some Things and Forget Everything Else
Henry Molaison had his hippocampus removed and could no longer form new memories. What that tragedy taught us about how memory actually works — and how unreliable it is.
Literature & ArtsWhy Dostoevsky Is Still the Most Psychologically Accurate Writer Who Ever Lived
Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote his major novels 150 years ago without access to modern psychology. Neuroscientists and psychoanalysts now use his work as case studies. Here is why his understanding of the human mind was decades ahead of science.
Psychology & BehaviourThe Psychology of Decision-Making: Why We Make Irrational Choices
Humans are not rational actors who occasionally err. We are systematically, predictably irrational in ways that researchers have mapped in detail. Understanding these patterns is the beginning of making better decisions.