The latest research as published by the Salk Institute has revealed that the human brain has 10 times more capacity than was previously thought. "This is a real bombshell in the field of neuroscience," says Terry Sejnowski, Salk Professor and coauthor of the p... Read more

Never embarrass someone? In a paper just published in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, University of Connecticut psychologist Colin Leach and one of his doctoral students, Atilla Cidam, examine the links between shame and “constructive approa... Read more

A friend of mine bought me a wonderful book last year called, "Hooked" by Nir Eyal. Nir is a Behavioural Designer with an amazing gift for writing, sharing a steady flow of insightful material on his cleverly named blog nirandfar.com. Regular readers of our bl... Read more

Having recently written here about the negative effects dopamine has on risk taking I came across this article ("A Natural Fix for A.D.H.D") today in the NY Times. As the father and husband of ADHD sufferers and the son of a doctor who regularly prescribes me... Read more

The famous British Economist John Maynard Keynes made a remarkably insightful observation, "It is a characteristic of human nature that a large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than on a mathematical expectation". Th... Read more