One of my all-time favorite studies in psychology is about pain. It’s an elegant experiment performed by Kurt Gray and Dan Wegner. They wrote: “When someone steps on your toe on purpose, it seems to ...

Whelehan is a social entrepreneur, behavior scientist, and Founder of 4 Day World. Whelehan is a social entrepreneur, behavior scientist, and Founder of 4 Day World. Imagine waking up one morning to ...

I summarize it like this — most aspects of our lives can affect our pain. This includes our stress level, our social connection, the amount of joy in our lives, how we relate to pain, whether we have ...

A few years ago, I started studying pain science. I find it fascinating and hopeful. Pain is multifactorial — many things can contribute to our experience of pain. That also means many things can help ...