In February 2024, students in my college seminar took a test measuring locus of control (LOC). LOC reflects how much we expect our own behavior to affect what happens to us—rather than luck, fate, ...

Control, autonomy, and agency—these are not just buzzwords in psychology but foundational concepts that shape our mental and physical well-being. The seminal research by Langer and Rodin (1976) on the ...

Place a finger on the back of your skull, at a point roughly level with the tops of your ears. Here, deep beneath the hair, skin and bone, near a fluid-filled cavity in the root of your brain, lies a ...