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Articles in Science & Nature tagged with Mind and Psychology

For Robert Jay Lifton, treating veterans’ trauma was an antiwar tool. How did PTSD, the diagnosis he helped create, come to accommodate state violence?

Hannah Proctor

Generative AI has made it possible to create lifelike models of real people. Should we?

Mala Chatterjee

Within the next decade, we may well have systems that are serious candidates for consciousness.

David J. Chalmers

In Foolproof, psychologist Sander van der Linden compares misinformation to viral infection—and claims to have a vaccine. 

Daniel Williams

Decades of biological research haven't improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.

Marco Ramos

The Judge Rotenberg Center, a Massachusetts school, still uses electric shock therapy to punish disabled students. How can an entire field of mental health accept this as fine?

John Summers

This summer, an intelligence report and a new Harvard research project have renewed the public’s interest in UFOs. But neither is likely to change many minds.

Greg Eghigian
The Myers-Briggs Bias: An Interview with Merve Emre
Deborah Chasman, Merve Emre
Through the experience of parenting his daughter, a software developer came to see Google and Facebook as the first digital children. 
David Auerbach

What constitutes a good death? On end-of-life care and assisted suicide.

F. M. Kamm
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