Imagine looking at your parent, sibling, friend or someone from your everyday life, recognizing their face without any confusion but something feels wrong. You are completely convinced that the person in front of you is not actually them but an identical impostor who has replaced them. Your brain is processing the face correctly. The problem is more emotional, telling you the person familiar to you is missing. This is a condition called Capgras Delusion, also known as Capgras Syndrome, and is...

Most people believe they think independently. That their opinions are their own, shaped by their logic, personal experiences, observation and judgement. But psychological studies show the opposite. In the presence of a group, people often don't trust their own perception, even when the answer is obvious. And this is the core idea behind conformity. Conformity is the tendency to adjust behaviour and beliefs to match a group, even if the group is wrong. One of the most famous demonstrations of...

You know the feeling when you have something important to do, a task you can't ignore. You understand the consequences that will occur if you don't do it. You can even picture the stress you will feel later, and yet you still choose to do something else. Anything except the thing you’re supposed to be doing. Procrastination may look like a discipline problem but actually is a conflict happening inside the brain between immediate comfort and delayed consequences. Our brains are structured to...