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NOVEMBER /DECEMBER 2020 | MIND.SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM Living Yo ur Best Life It doesn’t depend on wealth, or even constant happi ...
Is there anything more American than the pursuit of happiness? Not merely written into the Declaration of Independence, it seems ...
November– December 2020 Volume 31 • No. 6 WHAT’S INSIDE FEATURES In Defense of the Psychologically Rich Life It involves comple ...
JONAS HAFNER GETTY IMAGES Mountain Peaks Seem to Shape Personality Traits in the American West Topography may contribute to the ...
the Colorado Front Range is a wild-haired, adventurous loner. But mountains may draw out these traits to different degrees in pe ...
Cracking the Neural Code with Phantom Smells Scientists used light to evoke an odor directly in a mouse brain— no nose involved ...
activity in the brain. For the purposes of probing and hacking the neural code, though, the researchers opted for a modest and m ...
How Dozens of Languages Help Build Gender Stereotypes Usage patterns shape biases worldwide, whether in Japanese, Persian or Eng ...
“professional” were more likely to co-occur with each other, relative to words such as “woman” and “career.” And we found that, ...
patterns (linguistic statistics) that a person was being exposed to—and then measure their resulting psycho- logical gender ster ...
show that the surgery was reversible. Some of the other displayed pigs had multiple implants. Neuralink, which was founded by Mu ...
NEWS optimizations that have to happen in between prototype and the thing that you are super-duper proud of that you want to [sh ...
obtain foods that fit their meal plans. “While no one knows for sure what causes eating disorders, a growing consensus suggests ...
TREATMENT CHALLENGES The pandemic has also highlighted the limitations of electronic means of accessing treatment. In Bulik’s re ...
It involves complex mental engagement, a wide range of deep, intense emotions, and diverse, novel and interesting experiences By ...
“I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man’s l ...
lives psychologically richer [compared with happier (27.6 percent) or more meaningful (37.4 percent)]. These findings suggest th ...
GETTY IMAGES Emotional Labor Is a Store Clerk Confronting a Maskless Customer The preeminent sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschil ...
Gary Stix is a senior editor at Scientific American. He writes the blog Talking Back at ScientificAmerican.com. T WO MEN WALKED ...
tion, as when a funeral parlor attendant feigns sorrow and performs what I call “surface acting.” Other times it calls for tryin ...
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