Email [email protected] and we may answer it in a future column. Your brain is biased to negativity. Here’s how to be more positive.© George Wylesol for The Washington Post ...

The “expectation effect hack” involves simply telling yourself that something will be fun, enjoyable or otherwise positive so ...

If you've ever had to make a snap decision between two unfamiliar choices, you may want to thank your subconscious for making it possible. According to new research, the brain's memory areas link ...

Feeling Unproductive? This Brain Bias Could Be to Blame Bikeshedding is a very sneaky tool your brain uses to keep you stuck, and it’s very common during times of uncertainty.

Our Brain's Negative Bias Why our brains are more highly attuned to negative news. By Hara Estroff Marano published June 20, 2003 - last reviewed on June 9, 2016 ...

Your brain may be more likely to recognize new things as new when the unknown is already on your mind, according to new research. The findings suggest that memories are not made or recalled in a ...

It has been known for some time that human patients who have suffered injury to the brain's right hemisphere can experience a much more severe bias in their spatial attention--spatial hemineglect ...

Perceiving others’ pain is an automatic reaction that activates the same neural circuit in the brain as the one that is activated during first-person pain. This kind of empathic response has ...

While the human brain is impressive on many fronts, it has an inherent flaw: its negativity bias. By default, it's our negative experiences that tend to stand out.