Since the AIDS pandemic, the LGBTQ+ community has been reinventing funerary rituals to better reflect the way people lived ...

Between burnout and bore-out, there lies an optimal level of stress that can motivate you and enhance your performance ...

Research on the common strategies used to deal with emotions suggests their usefulness differs from culture to culture ...

To make the world more beautiful, Emma embraces the joy and vulnerability of dancing with abandon – on a subway platform ...

once prayed 40 times a day; now, he wanders through northern Italy reflecting on freedom. He is a postdoctoral researcher in political philosophy at the University of Pavia.

When our self-respect, status and social identity are threatened, we ought to defend ourselves and shame our wrongdoers ...

To some, the idea of leaving a religion can seem as innocuous as cancelling a gym membership. However, for many who have left a faith tradition, the reality is much more complicated. As a psychologist ...

Material possessions can be powerfully alluring – whether it’s buying new stuff we don’t need or can’t afford, or holding on to things for way too long. At the extremes, these inclinations can become ...

Dr Pia Callesen is a therapist and metacognitive specialist, managing several clinics in Denmark and providing metacognitive therapy online in English. She has a PhD from Manchester University and ...

Chatbots make us feel uniquely seen and heard, but then the ‘empathy gap’ kicks in and the relationship turns sour ...

Burhan Sönmez, now the president of PEN International, was a rising human rights lawyer in Turkey. A brutal assault nearly killed him – and propelled him to a life in literature I am the last in a ...

Satan wasn’t always a wicked, horned figure. The Romantics imagined the Devil as a resourceful and well-spoken gentleman Most of us have the wrong idea about Satan. We picture a being with horns, ...