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

In the past decade, researchers have found data suggesting that, on average, the populations of developed Western countries are becoming more stupid. It’s a reversal of the so-called Flynn Effect, ...

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

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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.

Many of us are drawn to the idea of meditating – motivated, perhaps, by scientific evidence that it supports wellbeing, health and cognition. In practice, though, if you’ve ever downloaded a ...

It’s not an absurd idea. Research from 2024 concluded that being facially expressive is socially advantageous, suggesting it ...

Your social anxiety nightmare has arrived: an email inviting you to attend a networking event pops into your inbox. Networking events are a special breed of social interaction that are packed with ...

Sexual obsessive-compulsive disorder is a prevalent subtype of the condition. However, for people who experience it, it seems anything but commonplace, as distressing intrusive thoughts deeply at odds ...

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