Deja vu tricks your brain into thinking you can predict the future. A 2025 study proved the feeling is an illusion.

#dejavu #neuroscience #simulationtheory

elon musk speaking into a microphone with his eyes closed ALT: elon musk speaking into a microphone with his eyes closed

I know one thing for sure, never trusting a Elon Musk run companies.
especially bci implants

"The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life" - Carl Jung

#psych #psychology #jung #quotes #philsky

Scientists Can Now Talk to You While You Dream | PsychMatic Researchers have cracked two-way communication with sleeping dreamers. Here's what lucid dreaming reveals about consciousness, therapy, and the future of your sleeping brain.

Scientists can now communicate with people while they’re dreaming and dreamers can actually respond. We are literally living in an Inception timeline.
Follow for more mind blowing science content and repost if this blew your mind.

#psychology #neuroscience #dreams #science #luciddreaming #sleep

Your brain is wired to sabotage you when the stakes are highest. Here's the neuroscience behind choking under pressure, and 5 proven techniques to stop it.

Your brain is wired to sabotage you when the stakes are highest. Here's the neuroscience behind choking under pressure, and 5 proven techniques to stop it.

#performancepsychology #choking #peakperformance

Your brain is wired to conform. Research shows 70% of people will agree with a group they know is wrong. Here's why you follow the crowd and how to break free.

Your brain is wired to conform. Research shows 70% of people will agree with a group they know is wrong. Here's why you follow the crowd and how to break free.

#conformity #groupthink #socialpsychology

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The best assistive tech almost always comes from actually talking to the
people who use it. Wild how often that step gets skipped in favor of
engineers guessing what accessibility means.

Countries with opt-out organ donation hit 90% consent. Opt-in countries average 15%. One checkbox saves thousands of lives.

#behavioraleconomics #nudgetheory #decisionmaking

Brain scans of 4,216 people reveal five distinct brain eras with major turning points at ages 9, 32, 66, and 83. The popular belief that your brain matures at 25 was never right.

Brain scans of 4,216 people reveal five distinct brain eras with major turning points at ages 9, 32, 66, and 83. The popular belief that your brain matures at 25 was never right.

#neuroscience #braindevelopment #psychology

Governments and companies design the options you see to steer your behavior. Here's how choice architecture and nudges work at scale, and why the defaults in your life matter more than you think.

Governments and companies design the options you see to steer your behavior. Here's how choice architecture and nudges work at scale, and why the defaults in your life matter more than you think.

#behavioraleconomics #nudgetheory #decisionmaking

The most effective loneliness treatment is not more socializing. It is CBT, with an effect size of 0.73.

#Loneliness #MentalHealth #SocialIsolation

Your brain doesn't record events like a camera. It rebuilds them every time you remember. Here's what neuroscience reveals about false memories and why your most vivid recollections might be wrong.

Your brain doesn't record events like a camera. It rebuilds them every time you remember. Here's what neuroscience reveals about false memories and why your most vivid recollections might be wrong.

#falsememories #memory #cognitivepsychology

New research shows MDMA causes lasting memory and learning deficits that persist even years after you stop using it. Here is what the science actually says about ecstasy and your brain.

New research shows MDMA causes lasting memory and learning deficits that persist even years after you stop using it. Here is what the science actually says about ecstasy and your brain.

#MDMA #brainhealth #neuroscience

Loneliness Is as Deadly as Smoking 15 Cigarettes a Day | PsychMatic A 2025 meta-analysis of 86 studies confirms social isolation raises mortality risk by 35%. Here's why loneliness kills, and what the science says you can do about it.

Loneliness raises your death risk by 35%.

That's on par with smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

86 studies confirmed it. 57% of Americans already feel lonely.

Here's what it does to your brain and body ↓
Repost if you know someone or yourself & Follow for more

#Psychology #MentalHealth

Human hippocampal neurogenesis in adulthood, ageing and Alzheimer’s disease - Nature Mapping of neurogenesis in human hippocampi across ages and different cognitive abilities using multiomic single-cell sequencing reveals distinct signatures between cognitive preservation and decline.

New @nature.com
The brains of Super Agers produce more neurons than people some 50 years younger, a neurogenesis resilient signature linked to exceptional cognitive health and memory skills
nature.com/articles/s41...

Honestly this makes me want to go get the shingles vaccine right now, my grandma had dementia and if something this simple could have helped prevent it that's wild

"… turning a blind eye to malfeasance in our ranks gives the public legitimate reason to distrust our work." Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University

As the U.S. doubles down on glyphosate, a widely cited study asserting its safety has been retracted after it was discovered the paper was ghostwritten by Monsanto employees.

This incident, and ghostwriting in general, harms scientific integrity, writes Naomi Oreskes. https://scim.ag/4rIIu4a

The fact that Monsanto literally ghostwrote a safety study about their own product and it took this long to get retracted tells you everything about how broken the accountability system is in science right now

The link between the immune system and Alzheimer's is something more people need to be paying attention to. This kind of research could change everything about how we approach prevention down the road.

Yale students supported a policy based solely on which party backed it. Then they made up logical reasons for their choice.

#politicalpsychology #tribalism #confirmationbias

Open-label placebos produce real healing even when patients know the pill is sugar. Learn how your brain's expectation machinery makes placebos work and why the effect keeps getting stronger.

Open-label placebos produce real healing even when patients know the pill is sugar. Learn how your brain's expectation machinery makes placebos work and why the effect keeps getting stronger.

#placeboeffect #neuroscience #painscience

You're not the customer. You're the product. Here's how the attention economy turned your focus into a trillion-dollar commodity, and why it keeps getting worse.

You're not the customer. You're the product. Here's how the attention economy turned your focus into a trillion-dollar commodity, and why it keeps getting worse.

#attentioneconomy #bigtech #digitalwellness

Amazon paid $2.5 billion because canceling Prime required 4 pages, 6 buttons, and 15 options. Employees called it the Iliad Flow.

#darkpatterns #UXdesign #consumerrights

Emotional manipulation in intimate relationships isn't about bad people. It's about attachment wounds, fear of abandonment, and brain wiring that keeps you stuck. Here's the science behind toxic re...

Emotional manipulation in intimate relationships isn't about bad people. It's about attachment wounds, fear of abandonment, and brain wiring that keeps you stuck. Here's the science behind toxic re...

#attachmenttheory #toxicrelationships #emotionalabuse

Open-label placebos produce real healing even when patients know the pill is sugar. Learn how your brain's expectation machinery makes placebos work and why the effect keeps getting stronger.

Open-label placebos produce real healing even when patients know the pill is sugar. Learn how your brain's expectation machinery makes placebos work and why the effect keeps getting stronger.

#placeboeffect #neuroscience #painscience

A single ad impression costs about a penny. That's why platforms need billions of users hooked for hours. You're the raw material.

#attentioneconomy #bigtech #digitalwellness

Massively fixed the site loading speed today. Also working on a new site theme thats more professional looking. Don’t worry ill keep the old look too.

You will be able to choose fun or professional with a pop up. It will stay that way until you change it or clear your browser cache for the site.

Fascinating that people point to social media and misinformation first. Would be interesting to see how that lines up with what the research actually shows cause it

Well deserved! Her work on developmental psychopathology has genuinely moved the field forward. Congratulations to Dr. Barch!

#psychology #psychologicalscience #cognitivescience