We like to think of ourselves as highly evolved and rational beings who think, feel, and act in ways that are intentional and reasonable. We hold this perception because it enables us to believe that ...

Psychologists have long held that the mind has two major systems: controlled (conscious) and automatic (unconscious). Here is an excerpt from my textbook entitled Motivation Science (co-authored with ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Effective leadership development involves using neurolinguistic programming (NLP) to address unconscious behavioral patterns. Rather than ...

For more than a century, psychologists have discussed and debated the idea of the unconscious mind and whether we can be affected by thoughts and feelings of which we are unaware. Freud believed one ...

You’re sitting at home, working at your laptop, and all of a sudden you hear the refrigerator shut off. Before you noticed its sudden silence, were you conscious it was on? That sort of question about ...

When we think of a narcissist, we often picture someone who is overtly arrogant, demanding admiration, and constantly talking about themselves. While these are all hallmarks of the personality type, a ...

Your brain doesn't like to keep secrets. Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, have shown that writing down secrets in a journal or telling a doctor your secrets actually decreases the level of ...