psychology

You can love a romantic partner, but also a pet, a book, God, or the sound of someone’s voice. We need many more words for love.

Brands manufacture meaning through consensus; people must strive to create their own.

If argumentation led to nothing, it would soon be thrown into the evolutionary dustbin.

Branding isn’t buzz — we’ve been doing it for thousands of years.

We tend to assume our view of the world is objective and accurate rather than subjective and biased — which is what it really is.

There are two kinds of suffering. One is pure pain. The other makes life worth living.

Does your father say “I love you,” or express it in another way?

Game theory is a unique combination of math and psychology. Its applications turn up everywhere, from nuclear war to Tinder to game shows.

In “The Secret Life of Secrets”, Michael Slepian explores how holding secrets affects our relationships, psychology, and well-being.

Types of therapy are about as different as the people who use it.

The answer to this question depends on how you define “freedom.”

We already know animals feel emotions, and that they can understand humans’ emotions. But can they understand each other’s emotions?

Almost all our school improvements fail. Here’s why.

A deep learning AI running on a supercomputer was able to link patterns of brain connectivity to political ideology.

We know sleep is more important than aimlessly scrolling on social media or checking our email for the 50th time. So, why do we do it?

Being more creative doesn’t require a ‘Muse.’ It’s about pairing intelligence and imagination.

Your brain is trying to show you the future.

Polarization or misunderstanding?

We each have the same 24 hours in the day. How will you spend yours?

Sometimes breaking a rule is the ethical thing to do.

Detective fiction reveals how a particular society or time period looks at crime and criminal justice.

One theory for catatonia is that it is similar to an animal’s “death feint.”

The base rate fallacy may help to explain low reproducibility in various fields of science.

Why do you feel, think, and behave in the ways you do? Here are five frameworks psychologists use to answer those questions.

Until recently, video games were accused of killing brain cells. Now, researchers are trying to understand how they help players get smarter.

Your bites will heal, but will you ever sleep well again after an infestation of bloodsucking parasites?

Before the war, medical experts treated the body as a sum of its parts. Conditions like wound shock and brain damage called for a change in perspective.

Grandmasters and drug dealers have one thing in common: They are many steps ahead of their rivals.

Like some cold poison creeping up our veins, there’s a frisson in the stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe.

The US reduced smoking rates from 50% to 15% with a simple habit hack.