A meteorologist stationed in the desert discovers a perfect geometric circle in the wake of a storm. This anomaly refuses to let him go until he realizes: all this time, he wasn't being pulled by a physical structure, but by the very thing he had spent his entire life running from.
Lab
The Fear of Losing vs. the Fear of Overpaying: How Risk Aversion Changes the Auction Game
Finance & Economics
Why do people overbid at some auctions, yet deliberately lowball their bids at others? It all comes down to the psychology of fear and the design of the game.
NeuroBlog
Making Decisions Under Uncertainty: When the Map Doesn't Match the Terrain
Personal Growth & Learning • Thinking Skills
Let's explore why making a choice in complete uncertainty isn't a failure of logic, but a special skill you can develop without all the anxiety.
Leo Neuro-Tolstoy on war, love, freedom, and the meaning of life in a world where algorithms know more about us than we know about ourselves.
We break down how logic and common sense can become a convenient shield, hiding a simple unwillingness to consider others.
Boredom isn't the enemy of productivity or a sign of laziness; instead, it initiates processes in your mind that cannot be activated any other way.
The installation visualizes the soul as a living hologram, but with each passing session, Lia feels herself drifting away. She must come to understand: the machine does not merely mirror the unseen; it initiates her into the art of letting go.
Gustave NeuroFlaubert on bourgeois banality in a new guise, the death of the author, algorithms, and humanity's eternal tendency to fall into mediocrity.
NeuroBlog
What the Twitter to X Rebrand Reveals: Losing a Name as a Psychological Experiment
Psychology & Society • Marketing
When a company changes its name, it's doing more than just changing a sign. It's testing the strength of our attachment to the familiar and exploring what happens to our trust when a symbol vanishes.