My Favorite Brain Study Reveals a Startling Secret
One of my favorite brain studies was carried out in 2014 by the renowned Brian C. Clark of Ohio University, ...
The Pursuit of Happiness
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that ...
Remember: The Brain Is Still a Mystery
I write on developments in neuroscience frequently, and it’s easy to get carried away with the pace and nature of ...
We Must Hang Together, or Assuredly We Will Hang Separately
Neuroscience continues to broaden our understanding of how communications actually works, and to shift our received wisdom. Two studies that ...
How to Craft a Crowd-pleasing Speech
How do we decide what we like in a speech, as a member of the audience? The question is an ...
How Do Our Brains Really Communicate?
Some recent research on how our brains work overturns previous thinking about the mind, with implications for how we communicate ...
Can Your Body and Your Brain Think Together?
One of the mysteries of the human mind that we are only beginning to delve into is the relationship between ...
Why We Get Defensive, in Neuroscientific Terms
We are still in the early days of understanding how our brains work. Neuroscience adds to our bank of knowledge ...
Should You Smile for the Camera? Be Careful — It May Age You!
We humans smile a great deal. We smile when we’re happy; we smile when we’re sad, to disguise the feeling ...
Do you know how to be empathetic?
Listening to my good friend and fellow speaker Martin G. Moore deliver a splendid speech on leadership recently, I was ...
