People with health anxiety tend to get tangled up in problematic behaviors, such as reassurance-seeking, excessive body checking and avoidance. These behaviors act like a vortex, sucking you into that ...

Ask most conservationists to talk about their impact, and you’ll hear stories of forests protected, of species saved, or of new technologies making a difference. But if you take a step back from those ...

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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is estimated to be experienced by roughly 1 in 127 people worldwide. It is characterized by atypical patterns in brain development, ...

Netflix continues to grow from strength to strength, commanding 270 million subscribers who watched 183 billion hours of content last year. A Culture of Testing Netflix executives “…believe there’s a ...

With the majority of non-retired Americans expressing doubt about their retirement readiness, employers have a unique opportunity — and responsibility — to address these challenges. For many workers, ...

This bold social experiment forces people to confront a question they’re never prepared for: would they let a stranger live with them? The reactions reflect micro-expressions, trust cues, and ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Hello and happy new year! I love the first few days of a new year. It evokes a feeling ...

It is a bit difficult to say what criteria should be used to judge the success or failure of a research initiative on the scale of merging psychology and economics. Two reasonable criteria, at least ...