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In life-threatening situations, your body instantaneously recruits the largest and fastest muscle fibers needed for explosive force and power. A 16-year-old boy lifts a Volkswagen off his pinned neighbor. A mother fights off a polar bear to protect her children. A daughter heaves an overturned tractor from atop her father. These feats are made possible by a rush of adrenaline and…

Clinical relevance: American adults in middle age experience higher loneliness levels than their European counterparts, potentially due to factors like the wider wealth gap and weaker family ties in the United States. American adults trudging through middle age admit to higher levels of loneliness than their European peers. Researchers suggest it might be because of the wider…

Scientists at the USC Rossier School of Education’s Center for Affective Neuroscience, Development, Learning and Education (CANDLE), have shown for the first time that a type of thinking, that has been described for over a century as a developmental milestone of adolescence, may grow teenagers’ brains over time. This kind of thinking, which the study’s authors call “transcendent,”…

Marriage psychologists, divorce lawyers, and therapists all say that struggling romantic relationships have one thing in common: bad communication. On a recent episode of the podcast “Ten Percent Happier,” host Dan Harris interviewed Charles Duhigg, a journalist and author of the new book “Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection” about why people have such a hard time…

Gossip has been around for centuries. The word comes from the Old English “godsibb,” dating from the 12th century. It’s a contraction from God and sibb, which, back then, referred to very close friends (i.e. godparents). But by the 16th century, “gossip” had accrued an insulting meaning: it referred mostly to women, especially those who delight…

The development of anxiety in girls and young women may stem from an imbalance between two crucial brain chemicals, Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid (GABA) and Glutamate, according to a new study from the University of Surrey. This discovery offers promising insights into potential treatment avenues for girls and women dealing with anxiety.   The study revealed that as…

According to a recent study of more than 34,000 U.S. adults, almost 60% said it was normal for them to eat after 9 p.m. But research has found that eating late at night could have a variety of negative effects on your body. How late-night eating affects your body The human body is programmed to…

Exhausted. Frayed. Languishing. Burned out. These are common words people use to describe how they feel professionally and personally. And it’s only getting worse. “Burnout is the primary driver pushing workers to look for relief in the forms of a new job, opportunities for advancement, more pay, and above all else, continued flexibility,” according to…

One of the most prevalent myths is that creativity significantly diminishes with age. The reality is: it all depends. According to psychologist Dean Keith Simonton, there are three factors that tend to affect our creativity as we age. First, our level of creativity is often influenced by the field or profession we’re in as adults.…

Maybe there was something to all those handwriting drills that baby boomers and Gen Xers suffered through in their youth. And maybe all that screen time the younger generations enjoy might have an effect we hadn’t anticipated. New research shows that writing by hand –  instead of relying on a keyboard – helps boost learning and memory. “We show that…