psychology
The media is deliberately pushing your buttons.
More than half of Americans feel anxious over their financial situation.
Urban legends help personify the anxieties that arise from living in a modern city.
How many tins of beans make a stockpile, and when does a basement become a bunker?
If you believe that you’re perfect, then somebody else must be responsible for your failures.
Research has found that words are more accurately heard when accompanied by hand gestures.
Psychologists are exploring this creepy feeling of having already lived through an experience before.
We are tearing ourselves apart over gender issues, with the result that the problems of boys and men are left untreated.
After 70 years, “The Power of Positive Thinking” remains incredibly popular, even though its critics find the book to be mostly fluff.
What if your best friend was an informant?
Which one is the funniest?
Between 30% and 50% of the US population says they believe in ghosts.
Does donating relieve that anxiety? Or make it worse?
Our society mostly emphasizes developing logical, procedural thinking skills, but this isn’t the only way to come up with great ideas.
It might seem petty and shallow to get upset over a bad gift, but there’s often a deeper reason behind the feeling.
Negative feedback ignites the primal (“fight or flight”) and emotional (“do they hate me?”) parts of our brain first.
Which studies are actually worth the hype?
There’s no escaping the death of loved ones. But that doesn’t mean we’re powerless in the wake of loss.
It turns out it’s hard to make work at an Amazon warehouse fun.
Fiona Broome remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s (he didn’t). Oddly, many people had the same false memory.
People think that unhappiness causes our minds to wander, but what if the causation goes the other way?
The idea that we’re happier at the beginning and end of our lives is really just a comforting myth.
From time-traveling billiard balls to information-destroying black holes, the world’s got plenty of puzzles that are hard to wrap your head around.
Every Christmas could be the last Christmas.
A key question is how to keep that relief going without relying solely on repeated ketamine infusions.
While most participants fibbed a little bit, laptop users were much more likely to lie – and by a lot more.
If you’re trying to hide how you feel about something, be careful with your hands.
Sigmund Freud developed the decidedly unscientific principles of psychoanalysis in a time when most psychologists were trying to join the ranks of chemists and medical doctors.
Expressing gratitude encourages others to continue being generous, promoting a cycle of goodness.