People consistently overestimate how long negative emotions will last — a phenomenon called impact bias.

The average person spends about six years of their life dreaming.

The amygdala processes fear and emotional responses and can trigger the fight-or-flight reaction in milliseconds.

Reading fiction consistently shows higher empathy and social cognitive skills in readers.

Intrinsic motivation — doing something for its own sake — produces better long-term performance than extrinsic rewards.

Your brain edits perception.

Most people believe they are less biased than others.

The anchoring effect shows how initial information biases later judgments.

People who stay up late are statistically more likely to have higher IQs.