Psychology

You Should Be Gentle Parenting Your Pet, An Animal Behavior Expert Reveals

Can Virtual Reality Help Folks With Body Image Disturbance?

Our Favorite Comfort Foods May One Day Help Us Tap Into Lost Memories

Are The Benefits Of Psychedelics Overblown? Here’s One Compelling Case Against The Hype

The 3.2 Million-Year-Old Lucy Fossil Reveals A Forgotten Truth About Humans

There's A Lot More To Translate In A Baby Babble Than You Might Think

Here’s Why You May Not Be Getting the Benefits You Expected From Mindfulness

Is Boredom An Emotion? Not Exactly, But It's More Important Than You Think

This Bird Is Way Smarter Than Anyone Gives It Credit For

Elephants Give Each Other Unique Names. It Gets Weirder

In a Bizarre Experiment, Neuroscientists Figured Out How We Control This Extremely Basic Human Need

Abracadabra! How magic can help us understand animal minds

When To Quit Therapy, According To A Clinical Psychologist

Why Self-Control Alone Won’t Help You Achieve Your Goals

How Legalization Has Made Pot A Lot More Potent

Can You Train Your Cat to Sit? It's Absurdly Easy With This Simple Trick

'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' Raises the Question: How Intelligent Are Apes?

A New Study Is Finally Attempting to Pin Down The Root Causes of Depression

This Personality Trait May Explain Why You Are Still Single

Over 700 Startups Have Invested Billions of Dollars Into Solving Humanity’s Most Challenging Problem

What Causes Hoarding? New Research Suggests It Can Start in Childhood

Wellness Culture Today Forgot About One Giant Idea From the Original 1970s Movement

Brain Scans Of Jazz Musicians Could Unlock The Mystery Of Creative Flow

Did Solar Eclipses Boost the Economies of Our Ancestors? These Researchers Think So

The Real Reason Finland Is The Happiest Country In The World

This Common Adaptation Could Be The Key To Happiness

The Gold Standard For Measuring Brain Activity Has Been Around For 100 Years

Can Weed Make Recreational Running Easier? These Runners and Scientists Are Racing To Find Out

What Makes Us Happy? Here’s What Scientists Actually Know

Can Covid-19 Lead to Cognitive Decline? Here’s What the Evidence Actually Shows

A Psychiatrist Reveals the Human Emotions That Could Halt Longterm Space Travel

The Psychological Coping Mechanisms Of Elite Athletes Can Help Everyone Face High-Pressure Situations

Psilocybin: For the terminally ill, mushroom legality may come too late

Can men get postpartum depression? Experts and dads reveal the truth

Superhero Therapy: How one Chernobyl survivor is helping Ukrainians today

Is fandom a cult? The religious fervor fueling Star Wars, Marvel, and more

Sad Dads: The battle to recognize postpartum depression in new fathers

Having intense dreams after your Covid-19 shot? An expert explains why

Resident Evil proves the worst trope in horror video games needs to die

Am I the Asshole? Why Reddit's favorite question is more popular than ever

The unexpected psychological effects of Marvel’s strangest superpower

A quarantine brain hack could also help fight climate change

How one Ancient Greek thinker revolutionized math — and possibly started a cult

Does mindfulness change the brain? Research fractures structural hypothesis

Ted Lasso's focus on therapy is its greatest gift

“Aharon said it was healing:” How psychedelic therapy was undermined by abuse

Prince Harry's therapy on Apple TV+ gets right one vital truth about trauma

Why A.I. knows who you find attractive better than you do

Nightmares have plagued humans for millennia — do we finally know how to tame them?

'Evil' Season 3 cast and creators tease the rising underworld and "shaken" status quo