psychology

Does the voice in your head castigate the voice coming out of a recording device?

The most momentous and significant events in our lives are the ones we do not see coming. Life is defined by the unforeseen.

Many have argued that free will is an illusion, but science does not support that.

Learning styles are supposed to help learners take ownership of their education, but research doesn’t back up this well-intentioned myth.

A recent study illuminated surprising differences in how men and women seek help when struggling with relationships.

Our social instincts can lead us to adopt models of desire that might not serve our interests.

Winner takes all, losers die, and participants have no choice but to play.

These studies are only the tip of the iceberg, with adverse consequence of the time change ranging from student test scores to stock market returns.

Our moral attitudes about sex and drugs share a genetic basis, suggests a recent study that examined the attitudes of more than 5,000 twins.

Awe makes us feel smaller but also more connected to life and each other.

The highest earning Myers-Briggs personality type? ENTJ.

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.

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.