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The contemporary obsession with feeling good might mean we’re losing sight of what makes life genuinely meaningful ...

Ecstatic moves, magic moments – this animated short documentary details one basketball fan’s love of the arena’s big screen ...

We think of tears as an overflow of emotion, but an evolutionary lens shows they’re a rational form of social signalling ...

Something curious happens in two people’s brains during supportive interactions. It could help explain their emotional power ...

Intrusive thoughts about doing bad things are common, but for people with OCD they provoke deep fears about the self ...

After fleeing war-torn Liberia, an outsider artist creates haunting portraits while seeking asylum in the Netherlands ...

Far more than an evolutionary imperative, caregiving is a gateway to our deepest humanity, and may explain our intelligence ...

The diplomatic intervention by a philosopher on a president shows the extraordinary consequences of unlikely meetings ...

Koenig is already a curious character for anyone interested in psychology. He has Urbach-Wiethe disease, which has calcified his right amygdala – apparently rendering him incapable of feeling fear (a ...

Through my own struggles and in teaching bibliotherapy to students, I know that books can help to heal minds and hearts A few years ago, I had a breakdown from what would now be termed ‘burnout’. It ...

As the father of twins, I could hardly feel more frazzled. But my brain age might paint a different, more youthful, picture ...