Merv Mandelbaum 
Let’s play the ultimatum game. I’m first player, you’re second player. We have ten bucks to divide, first player gets to propose a division, and second player gets to accept or reject the division—and if the second player rejects, then nobody gets anything. If I’m smart, I’ll propose a fifty-fifty … Read More
In the spirit of opening up about mental health, here’s the thing about depression: you know how depressed people sometimes talk about a sinking feeling in their gut? It isn’t metaphorical, they’re actually feeling that. It hasn’t been a well-studied part of mental health, but a new study published in … Read More
Over fifty-five? Do yourself a favour: if you’re driving, skip that glass of wine with dinner, because it might be enough to make you a dangerous driver. This particular piece of bad news comes courtesy of a study published in Psychopharmacology, which has found that, once you hit fifty-five, you … Read More
Want to deal with stress? Find someone else stressed. Together, you can both be not stressed. Or calm, the dictionary tells us. A study published in Social Psychological & Personality Science found that commiserating with a similarly stressed person (that is, someone facing the same stressor) can reduce the stress … Read More
Twitter may be a lair of narcissists and trolls, but it’s become something of a bellwether, for better or for worse. The question is, how? Researchers in China investigated the question in a study published in the awesomely-named Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. Basically, the researchers harvested a … Read More
