If you’ve ever been to a magic show, you know how easy it is to “trick” your brain into seeing something that isn’t quite there. Now, a new study published in the journal Pain Reports has unveiled an ...

September is Pain Awareness Month, and more than 51 million Americans report living with chronic pain. Over the past couple of decades, experts say increased prescriptions of opioid medications were ...

Dreading a task at the end of a long week? There may be a way to trick your brain into seeing that chore as a reward. “Dopamine anchoring” is the latest psychology hack making the rounds on social ...

Dreading a task at the end of a long week? There may be a way to trick your brain into seeing that chore as a reward. "Dopamine anchoring" is the latest psychology hack making the rounds on social ...

There’s a world of difference between forcing yourself to do a task and tricking your brain into wanting to do it. The secret lies in psychology: Forcing yourself to do a task feels like punishment, ...

Did you make any resolutions this new year? If you did, are you keeping to them? Well done if you are. Polling in America suggests half of new-year resolvers give up by the end of March. More rigorous ...

No matter how much we love our lives and our jobs, our daily to-do lists always include things we do not want to do, if not tons of things we don't want to do. It's perhaps the worst part of being an ...