Scientific American – May-June 2019, Volume 30, Number 3

MAY /JUNE 2019 | MIND.SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM HOW OUR LANGUAGE SHAPES OUR PERCEPTION THE EVOLUTIONARY ADVANTAGES OF MENTAL ILLNES ...

If the nearly 180,000 parenting guides being offered on Amazon are any indication, people are eager to raise good kids. But more ...

May-June 2019 WHAT’S Volum e 3 0 •No. 3 INSIDE JUAN GAERTNER GETTY IMAGES FLORIAN GAERTNER GETTY IMAGES FEATURES 15. Our Languag ...

JUAN JIMENEZ GETTY IMAGES NEWS Why the Secrets You Keep Are Hurting You It may not be what you think IT HURTS TO KEEP secrets. S ...

keep them. We found that 97 percent of people have at least one secret at any given moment, and people have, on average, 13 secr ...

Previous research has established that individuals with ADHD are exceptionally good at divergent thinking tasks, such as inventi ...

planet very different from Earth. The creations were to be as creative as possible and not duplicate any fruit that existed on E ...

worse. The failures suggest re- searchers were missing something. A series of observations and recently published research findi ...

Alzheimer’s occurring at a relatively young age result from inheriting a single dominant gene. Another variant of a gene that tr ...

systems, especially if they caught the virus in late adolescence or early adulthood run a higher risk of developing MS—supportin ...

and educators. This state of affairs reflects a heated debate among scientists. Studies showing statistical- ly significant nega ...

NEWS trees. “It’s about setting a standard,” Przybylski says. “This kind of data exploration needs to be systematic.” All of thi ...

differentiate an object from another (such as the curve of a spoon handle or its overall length), and the fact that hun- dreds o ...

Drunk Witnesses Remember a Surprising Amount Interviewing an inebriated person at the scene may be more accurate than waiting un ...

GETTY IMAGES GETTY IMA GE S^ Our Language Aects What We See A new look at “the Russian blues” demonstrates the power of words t ...

Does the language you speak influence how you think? This is the question behind the famous linguistic rela- tivity hypothesis, ...

brain was busy processing the first target and didn't have attentional resources to spare to detect the second target. In the de ...

Why Do We Crave Sweets When We’re Stressed? A brain researcher explains our desire for chocolate and other carbs during tough ti ...

A lthough our brain accounts for just 2 percent of our body weight, the organ consumes half of our daily carbohydrate requiremen ...

Invel mi, am evelit accaborernam quodio. Num ipsa eseriantur? Quisto bea pro invent aut rem eium que cor maionse aas piendus. Of ...