Psychology & Neuroscience
Studies in cognition, mental health, neuroscience, and human behaviour, graded honestly so you know how much weight to give them.
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When the rules of making money change, people quickly change how much risk they take
People's taste for risk is not fixed. In a paid experiment where money grew in two different ways, participants shifted their risk-taking to nearly the level that grows wealth fastest over time.
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Growing up around threat may reshape one particular brain network
Young people who faced more threat, like violence at home, had a larger brain network that links thinking to body movement. Scans of 4,525 people aged 9 to 18 showed the network grew as threat rose.
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People with low or unstable incomes may face higher odds of a rare, severe pain disease
In South Korea, adults with the lowest incomes were more likely to develop a rare chronic pain condition than the richest. Those in the lowest income group had about 3.7 times the risk over 10 years.