Unquestioned community rules on marriage, dining and even black cats often stem from our hunger to explain random events ...

We used an electric-shock dilemma to test the strength of people’s moral principles when faced with real-world complexities ...

In the social media age, it seems impossible not to measure ourselves against others – but we can dodge the worst pitfalls ...

Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon Media that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts.

is a cartographer and writer living and working in Minneapolis.

is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.

A lifetime of pleasure and pain, beauty and misery, collapsed into a single scene in this sprawling animated artwork ...

is an associate professor of behavioural science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, US.