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As Sick as Your Secrets: Understanding Munchausen by Proxy

As Sick as Your Secrets: Understanding Munchausen by Proxy

‘Don’t You Want to be a Normal Girl?’ John Money, the Reimer Twins, and Intersex Autonomy

‘Don’t You Want to be a Normal Girl?’ John Money, the Reimer Twins, and Intersex Autonomy

The Science of Dreams

The Science of Dreams

What’s in a Dream? No One Really Knows

What’s in a Dream? No One Really Knows

Research Reveals Why Women Love True Crime

Research Reveals Why Women Love True Crime

If You Loved Me: Marriage Isn’t (Really) About Love

If You Loved Me: Marriage Isn’t (Really) About Love

5 Common Phobias – and What You Can Do to Overcome Them

5 Common Phobias – and What You Can Do to Overcome Them

A Brief History of Organ Transplants

A Brief History of Organ Transplants

How Caffeine Affects the Human Body

How Caffeine Affects the Human Body

What Is the Elevator Game and How Do You Play?

What Is the Elevator Game and How Do You Play?

‘Do Something’: Cutting Your Risk of Cancer One Step at a Time

‘Do Something’: Cutting Your Risk of Cancer One Step at a Time

Is Money Real? From Barter to Bitcoin

Is Money Real? From Barter to Bitcoin

The American Way of Zen: How It Arrived and Why It Thrived

The American Way of Zen: How It Arrived and Why It Thrived

Artificial Intelligence & Consciousness: Can Computers Learn to Feel as Humans Do?

Artificial Intelligence & Consciousness: Can Computers Learn to Feel as Humans Do?

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Science of Hacking Your Unconscious Mind

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Science of Hacking Your Unconscious Mind

Filicide & Familicide: What Drives Men and Women to Family Annihilation?

Filicide & Familicide: What Drives Men and Women to Family Annihilation?

The Serial Killer Next Door: How Well Do You Know Your Neighbors?

The Serial Killer Next Door: How Well Do You Know Your Neighbors?

LSD, Psilocybin, Ketamine, and DMT: How These Psychedelics Affect the Brain

LSD, Psilocybin, Ketamine, and DMT: How These Psychedelics Affect the Brain

Music and the Brain: Discoveries Reveal the Depth of Melody in Our Lives

Music and the Brain: Discoveries Reveal the Depth of Melody in Our Lives

The Surprising History of Gift-Giving: From Chimpanzees to St. Nicholas

The Surprising History of Gift-Giving: From Chimpanzees to St. Nicholas

Science, Drugs, Death, and Deities: What’s Behind Transcendent Experiences?

Science, Drugs, Death, and Deities: What’s Behind Transcendent Experiences?

The Evolution of the Psychopath: How Realistic Are Your Favorite Scary Characters?

The Evolution of the Psychopath: How Realistic Are Your Favorite Scary Characters?

Why Does Eating Comfort Food Make Us Feel So Good?

Why Does Eating Comfort Food Make Us Feel So Good?

Could Mushrooms Save Humanity? The Wondrous Powers and Potential of Fungi

Could Mushrooms Save Humanity? The Wondrous Powers and Potential of Fungi

Move Over, COVID: 4 Past Pandemics that Plagued History

Move Over, COVID: 4 Past Pandemics that Plagued History

The Overview Effect: How Seeing Earth from Space Changes Lives—and Inspired a Movement

The Overview Effect: How Seeing Earth from Space Changes Lives—and Inspired a Movement

Sex, Love, and Robots: The Ethics and Emotions of Artificial Relationships

Sex, Love, and Robots: The Ethics and Emotions of Artificial Relationships

The Skinny on Fat Cells: They're Just Another Body Tissue

The Skinny on Fat Cells: They're Just Another Body Tissue

Serial Killers In America: Quotes From The Darkest Criminal Minds

Serial Killers In America: Quotes From The Darkest Criminal Minds

A History of Poppies: How One Flower Advanced Medicine (and Fueled the Opioid Epidemic)

A History of Poppies: How One Flower Advanced Medicine (and Fueled the Opioid Epidemic)

Leveling Up:  New Research Reveals 4 Surprising Psychological Benefits of Video Games

Leveling Up: New Research Reveals 4 Surprising Psychological Benefits of Video Games

Portals to Other Worlds: Where Stonehenge, Harry Potter, and Dark Matter Meet 

Portals to Other Worlds: Where Stonehenge, Harry Potter, and Dark Matter Meet 

I See Dead People: How (and Why) Our Minds Conjure Ghosts

I See Dead People: How (and Why) Our Minds Conjure Ghosts

Cannabis Legalization: What the Data Says about its Risks and Benefits

Cannabis Legalization: What the Data Says about its Risks and Benefits

Mental Health Behind Bars: Treatment and Rehabilitation in the Criminal Justice System

Mental Health Behind Bars: Treatment and Rehabilitation in the Criminal Justice System

The Cost of Weightlessness: How Space Travel Can Affect the Human Body and Mind

The Cost of Weightlessness: How Space Travel Can Affect the Human Body and Mind

Made in a Hollywood Basement? Cultural and Psychological Roots of Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories

Made in a Hollywood Basement? Cultural and Psychological Roots of Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories

5 Revealing Documentaries About Sex and Gender

5 Revealing Documentaries About Sex and Gender

Sacred Brews: A History of Coffee and Religion

Sacred Brews: A History of Coffee and Religion

Light and Dark: Two Legacies of the History of Coffee

Light and Dark: Two Legacies of the History of Coffee

The Flexible Brain:  Neuroplasticity’s Revolutionary Potential for Training and Healing

The Flexible Brain: Neuroplasticity’s Revolutionary Potential for Training and Healing

Good Vibrations: How Sound Therapy Could Cure Depression, Cancer, Alzheimer’s, and More

Good Vibrations: How Sound Therapy Could Cure Depression, Cancer, Alzheimer’s, and More

Life Obsessed: What Is OCD?

Life Obsessed: What Is OCD?

Psychopath vs. Sociopath: What’s the Difference?

Psychopath vs. Sociopath: What’s the Difference?

Very Superstitious: 5 Popular Superstitions in Today’s America

Very Superstitious: 5 Popular Superstitions in Today’s America

7 Ways BMI is Useless, 6 Better Alternatives, & 5 Reasons to Stick With BMI Anyway

7 Ways BMI is Useless, 6 Better Alternatives, & 5 Reasons to Stick With BMI Anyway

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