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9 Things Experts Wish You’d Do in Midlife to Increase Longevity
How you treat your body and brain in your midlife years, loosely defined as 40 to 60, can hugely influence how you age in the decades to come. The seeds for many age-related diseases, including
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Monkeys Understand Shapes in Almost the Same Way as Humans
You (probably) won’t find a monkey in a geometry class, but it looks like our fellow primates can swing the basics. … This shared foundation suggests that our geometric intuition evolved long before humans did
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How to Have Deeper Conversations With Anyone
Most people slide into Robert Roble’s car, pop in their earbuds, and signal that they’d rather not talk. Roble has spent eight years and nearly 12,000 Lyft rides trying to change their minds. By the
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He’s Studied Procrastination for 40 Years. Here’s What He’s Learned
Joseph Ferrari has a nickname for procrastinators — procs — and he’s been studying them for 40 years. He became fascinated with procrastination when he was working on a PhD in experimental psychology and realized
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There’s a Name for the People Who Drain You
… The PNAS study didn’t measure what, precisely, hasslers do that is so annoying. But Karen S. Rook, a UC Irvine psychologist who was not involved with the study but who has researched similar phenomena, told me that
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Can Smartphones Help Explain the Drop in Birth Rates?
… The drop in birth rates has affected women of all ages, but it’s most pronounced among teenagers. That sounds plausible to Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University. In books
