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Sex in the Middle Ages

Historian Ruth Mazo Karras on church court records, means of contraception, and sex and gender roles in the Middle Ages

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Neuroscientist John Krystal on flashbacks, relative merits of different treatments, and brain tissue collection

Psychologist Ellen Bialystok on simultaneous learning of different writing systems, cognitive reserve, and multilingualism

Counselling Psychology

Psychologist Terry Hanley on humanism, creativity of a therapist, and making ethical decisions

The Trolley Problem

Philosopher David Schmidtz on ethical dilemmas, moral institutions, and the nature of justice

Free will and moral responsibility

Philosopher Derk Pereboom on compatibilism, causal determination, and Spinoza

Risk taking across the life span and around the globe

Researchers found a connection between the levels of hardship in the country and its citizens' propensity to take risks

The structural neural substrate of subjective happiness revealed by a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study

Researchers find a likely suspect for the neural substrate of subjective happiness

Speaking multiple languages can improve stroke outcome

Patients who speak more than one language seem to be twice as likely to have a better outcome after stroke

Temporal discounting

Neuroscientist Samuel McClure on why we violate our best intentions, ‘dual selves model’, and pathways in our brain that process decisions

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