Psychologists are discovering what’s going on when you do something you enjoy, but also feel weird or embarrassed about You wouldn’t know it from a lot of everyday conversation, filled as it is with ...

is an English teacher who’s interested in the stories people tell themselves and what those reveal. After years of exploring different kinds of therapy, she found an unlikely source of insight in an ...

Research on how we perceive the rate of change shows how you can be strategic about goal tracking and boost your motivation Suppose you just started training for a marathon. You’ve never done anything ...

For many who are chronically connected, a break from tech sounds appealing. Research is uncovering when and how it helps ...

It’s fun stumbling upon psychological concepts in unexpected places. I remember first learning about the Johari Window (an obscure framework for thinking about the limits of self-knowledge) in the ...

In 392 CE, the Roman emperor Theodosius I outlawed one of the oldest and most well-established mystery cults in the Greek-speaking world, the Eleusinian Mysteries, which had taken place for more than ...

How did humans create the earliest words? Iconic vocal sounds, which match form and meaning, likely played a key role Language gives us the power to describe, virtually without limit, the countless ...

A criminal investigation is a complex, multifaceted problem-solving challenge. Detectives must make critical decisions rapidly – sometimes involving life and death, based on limited information in a ...

People living in Western nations today can expect to live a considerably longer life, on average, than 100 years or so ago. The dramatically shorter average life expectancies of the past were skewed ...

Have you ever experienced a space that made you feel uneasy or stressed? Perhaps it was a noisy and crowded shopping mall, with its neon signs, patterned tilework and boldly painted walls in franchise ...

I brought my newborn to visit a hospice patient. It took me far from what I’d thought medicine was ...

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