Psychology

Mice Playing Video Games Reveals a Key to Memory Formation

These Science-Backed Strategies Can Help “Hard to Treat” Depression

Chatbots Aren’t Becoming Sentient — Our Biggest Fears Are in Our Heads

'Boston Strangler' Review: Keira Knightley Can't Resuscitate A Suffocating True-Crime Slog

'Yellowjackets' Season 2 Review: The Teen Terror Reaches Bewildering New Heights

A Daily Commute Provides Needed “Liminal Space” For Your Brain

Daylight Savings Is Bad For Our Health — This Simple Method Is Better

The Psychological Reason You’re Afraid of Clowns

This Key Ability Helps Make Us Human — and We Still Don’t Completely Understand It

The Secret to Better Sex Isn’t As Steamy As You Think — Sex Researcher

Asking yourself one fun question could help boost your well-being and longevity

The Key to Happiness: 6 Strategies To Boost Your Mood for Good

Pigeons and Computers Have One Surprising Thing in Common, Study Reveals

Overthinking? This New Kind of Therapy May Finally Provide An Antidote

How does the placebo effect take hold? A doctor explains 2 influential factors

Procrastination study suggests a link to shoulder pain, bad sleep, and more

Do video games make you smarter? One surprising genre leads the rest

Study reveals one brilliant brain hack that can unlock your creativity

Feeling insecure? 5 science-backed strategies could help break the cycle

Use these 3 expert-backed tips to combat the remote-work blues

One style of social media use makes you feel better than any other — it’s not what you think

'Alice in Borderland' Season 2 ends with a surprisingly kind message — and one character is proof

Can’t believe the holidays are here already? Your aging brain may be to blame

'Avatar 2' gave me a headache — and there's a scientific reason why

The benefits of procrastinating, according to a behavioral scientist

Scientists want to know why swear words share this one universal trait

We need to start treating grieving for our pets seriously — therapists can help

'The Eternal Daughter' review: Tilda Swinton haunts herself in a ghost story for the ages

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

Happiness study finds a huge contrast between 2 types of people — which are you?

Check your thermostat: Cold homes come with serious mental health risks

How to unblock your creativity: Scientists say this bad habit can help

You need to watch the darkest crime thriller on HBO Max ASAP

What is ganzflicker? The strange history of hallucinating without drugs

Why is 13 considered unlucky? The power behind this notorious number

Brain study suggests the workday needs to be radically restructured

Meditation literally changes how your brain's neurons move

AI is disrupting long-held assumptions about universal grammar

Swearing study reveals cursing’s powerful cognitive effects

The unexpected psychological effects of Marvel’s strangest superpower

Superhero Therapy: How one Chernobyl survivor is helping Ukrainians today

Does mindfulness change the brain? Research fractures structural hypothesis

Having this many nightmares a week may be tied to extreme brain aging

Want a better relationship with your dog? These 7 factors are key

In a first, scientists show dogs can smell when humans are stressed

Why do cats love cardboard boxes? Pet experts decode the obsession

These two daily activities are wreaking havoc on teens’ sleep

Scientists know why we are so indecisive — and how to get over it

Need to use 988? 4 key questions about the new mental health crisis hotline, answered

Inside the cults that survive even when the prophecy fails