psychology

The ability to differentiate your emotions might make you less likely to suffer from depression, alcoholism, and anger issues.

The more horror we consume, the harder it becomes to find a good scare. These genuinely unsettling movies should get you in the mood for Halloween.

How we handle grief largely depends on our worldview. Here is how three famous philosophers handled the certainty of grief and despair.

Haunting photographs depict the dead as “still with us.”

Dedicated circuits evaluate uncertainty in the brain, preventing it from using unreliable information to make decisions.

We are more likely to agree with someone who also agrees with us. Young children, though, only trust themselves. We have to learn to trust.

A recent study casts doubt on the notion that watching porn, whether alone or with a partner, damages romantic relationships.

Great genius is not born of lightning bolt-like moments of inspiration. In reality, perseverance plays the biggest role.

Our minds are hyper-taxed due to hyper-tasking. We need to slow down and allow ourselves to daydream if we want to improve our attention.

It’s better to pursue moral actions instead of the ephemeral state of happiness, according to the philosopher Immanuel Kant.

Engaging in a brief mindfulness exercise made people who identified “I/me” words 33% less likely to volunteer.

We all employ heuristics to help us deal with the world. But when we make a hasty generalization, we risk making a big error in our thinking.

Deep brain stimulation could represent a breakthrough in the treatment of mental health disorders like major depressive disorder.

The key is finding which lifestyle suits you best: hedonic, eudaimonic, or experiential.

Marijuana use among college students in 2020 reached levels not seen since the 1980s.

Are you in love? Trust your mother over your brain.

Time and again, studies have found a connection between authoritarian ideals and meaning in life — a notion backed up by historical documents.

Stoicism says that we should change what we can, endure what we must. The company we keep is something we can, and often should, change.

In a world without “bullshit jobs,” we would have more hours available to us to learn new skills and to unleash our creative side.

To enable us to read, the brain piggybacks on other cognitive processes.

More than pay or advancement, people are seeking a better fit between their own and corporate values.

Mind Bank Ai is the newest entrant in an ambitious idea: using AI to create a kind of immortality.

Our temporal experience of the world is not divided into a series of neat segments, yet that’s how we talk about time.

Evidence shows that information is transmitted via “complex contagion.”

Why do people own so many unused possessions, treating them as though they are too special to use?

“Theory of mind” enables all people to naturally infer other people’s mental states. Psychopaths don’t seem to put much effort into the process.

A new study suggests that depressed people may prefer a Leonard Cohen or Bob Dylan song to one from The Beach Boys or One Direction.

For some people, the emotional pull of fictional characters is profoundly strong.

Ultrarunning is a celebration of living and a rehearsal of dying all rolled up in a single intense experience.

Our ancestral cousins far more intelligent than we credit them for, and they did things most of us cannot.