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Psychology
The irrelevance of the heart to love has been amply demonstrated by cardiac transplant surgeons. In William...
Exploring the dominant influence of religious notions in people’s worldview, providing meaning and powerfully influencing their cognitions,...
As important as sexuality is to being human, it is often viewed as a taboo topic for...
The story of a flamboyant doctor whose famous fans included Dickens. But his experiments with hypnosis eventually met...
Detail from a coloured etching after C-L. Desrais depicting people gathered around the “baquet” at one of...
We’ll say someone’s brainwashed only when we disagree with their beliefs or actions. lolloj/Shutterstock.com Forty years ago, Rebecca...
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. Czech psychiatrist Kurt Freund found that...
Javier Zarracina/Vox Subjective experiences, compelling storytelling, and tenacity of conviction do not alone make an idea worthwhile. By...
Mass psychology and nationalism as as a form of degeneration, or a barbarous and cruel regression after the Great...
Oxycodone-acetaminophen pills. Patrick Sison/AP By Dr. Michael Robinson / 09.29.2017Assistant Professor of PsychologyWesleyan University Why do they do...
From the Guild-Book of the Barber-Surgeons of the city of York / British Library, Public Domain Medicine...
Polygraph amplifer / Photo by glacial23, Wikimedia Commons A general overview of the literature and thinking to...
The Triumph of Civilization / Photo by Grizzli, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Wikimedia Commons The enormous contribution of ancient...
John W. Waterhouse, “A Mother Bringing Her Sick Child to the Temple of Asklepios”, 1877 (Image in...
By Dr. Vlad Petre Glăveanu / 08.31.2017 Associate Professor of Psychology Webster University Geneva It is always...
Relativity by M.C. Escher, 1953 / Wikimedia Commons One of the most remarkable human capacities is to...
By Rob Horning / 06.28.2017 Lately I have been reading Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. I...
Nero didn’t really fiddle while Rome burned – he wasn’t even there. Examining the link between societal crisis...
Wikimedia Commons Looking at the various forms of propaganda in circulation during the Russian Revolution. By Dr. Katya Rogatchevskaia...
Wilhelm Wundt founds the first formal laboratory of psychology at the University of Leipzig, Germany. / Wikimedia...
Image: Chelsea Turner/MIT Study identifies neurons that fire at the beginning and end of a behavior as...
Photo by ores2k, Creative Commons Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – Introduction to Memory...
After his son’s suicide aged 18, Steve Mallen sees the world differently. Along with a growing number...
As many as 70 million Americans may not be getting enough sleep. Men get fewer hours of...
By Gilbert Ross / 02.03.2018 Reconnecting with Our Natural State Individuality, diversity and uniqueness are celebrated and...
Image via PBS Rogers’ emphasis on kindness and love is proving to be very important to good health. Here’s why. By Dr. Richard Gunderman / 06.08.2018 Professor of...
The good news is that there are specific habits that you can practice in order to begin...
You heard it say what? Roman Stetsyk/Shutterstock.com Where you come down on the latest internet hullabaloo depends on...
Wikimedia Commons By Mohammed Al-Mosaiwi / 05.02.2018 PhD Candidate in Psychology University of Reading Think of the...