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How Putting Your Thoughts Into Words Can Rewire Your Brain
Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text message to composing an op-ed, writing allows you to, at once, name your pain and create distance from it.
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2 Things You Can Do To Make Experiences Less Painful, According To Experts
Stress, challenges and failure are a part of life, but how we emotionally respond to them can shape our future. As Shakespeare put it, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it
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Good Conversations Don’t Require Everybody to Agree, Neuroscience Shows
… All of this work hints that our interactions might be more harmonious if we were more in sync with one another. But evidence from a new technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) hyperscanning
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The Perverse Consequences of the Easy A
… At the same time, professors were coming under more pressure to tend to their students’ emotional well-being, Amanda Claybaugh, Harvard’s dean of undergraduate education, told me. They received near-constant reminders that Harvard was admitting
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Member Spotlight: 2025 Spence Award Recipient Justin Minue Kim On the Science of Emotion
This Spence recipient’s interdisciplinary work examines the neurocognitive mechanisms of affective information processing and how they impact mental health.
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Morning Anxiety Is Real. Here’s What To Do About It
Sometimes it can feel like whatever is stressing you out — that deadline, a big meeting, the news cycle — is showing up first thing in the morning. You may wake up with a pit
