Why is it so uncomfortable to stand really close to a stranger? Sure, there are the potentially icky things. Sometimes an elevator car is so crowded that you can smell a fellow rider’s shampoo or ...

If functionality of the brain's amygdala is impaired, illusory perceptions arise much faster and more pronounced. This was discovered by a team of researchers, who studied identical twins in whom both ...

Fear is one of the most universally understood human emotions. Every one of us is familiar with the feelings, behaviors, and symptoms engendered by fear — so familiar, in fact, that we can sense it in ...

I find it quite ironic that in the so-called age of information and technology, that much of our recent collective behavior has resembled the bandwidth of our most primitive ancestors. In fact, what I ...

Three women with an extremely rare type of brain damage had never felt fear in their adult lives. Snakes and scary movies didn't do it for them. In fact, they couldn't even recognize a fearful ...