Managing stress, keeping a journal, mediating, and other strategies can help you change your mindset, making it easier to direct your thoughts in a certain direction. Share on Pinterest Mihajlo ...

Brainwashing is often viewed as a Cold War relic—think '60s films like "The Manchurian Candidate" and "The IPCRESS File." But Rebecca Lemov, professor of the history of science, argues in her recently ...

When I taught “Introduction to Psychology,” we covered four main goals of psychology: to describe, explain, predict, and control behavior (Coon, Mitterer, 2013). The idea of control is ultimately self ...

In today's complex social landscape, recognizing the subtle signs of manipulation is more essential than ever. Mind control, though a term often relegated to science fiction, is a very real and ...

This story is part of our new Future of Gaming series, a three-site look at gaming’s most pioneering technologies, players, and makers. With only your mind: you can imagine, you can dream improbable ...

Adult fruit fly brain infected with Wolbachia (in green). (Image by Brandt Warecki) Some parasites can hijack the behavior of the animals they infect. Grasshoppers colonized by hairworms will jump ...