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The youngest employees are already feeling pressured and exhausted – even in the earliest stages of their careers.

Narcissists aren’t all overt and grandiose. There’s a stealthier, friendlier kind who are harder to spot – but just as dangerous.

Memories of traumatic experiences can be controlled by deliberately suppressing the images, but until now, it was unclear how this works.

Some new graduates are beginning their careers on salaries most workers will never hit in their careers – but what are the long-term implications?

Intuition is often lauded as the key to decision making. Should you always follow your gut, or is it more complicated?

The researchers found that the beneficial changes varied according to electrode placement and task required.

The European Research Council (ERC) awards Starting Grants to eleven Max Planck researchers; humanities and social sciences lead the internal ranking

A team at the Max Planck Institute is using virtual reality to study how the brain processes emotions, and their findings could be game-changing.

Many people claim meditation helps to relieve their daily stresses. A new study provides objective evidence which supports the claims. Researchers found cortisol levels from hair samples decreased by 25% following a six-month meditation training program.

Mental training that promotes skills such as mindfulness, gratitude or compassion reduces the concentration of the stress hormone cortisol in hair