Tipping the balance of behavior: Social neurons and asocial neurons / Image by ZEISS Microscopy (Creative Commons) In Behave,...
Psychology and Psychiatry
Explore the changing ways people have explained thought, emotion, behavior, and mental distress. These histories follow psychology from philosophy and early experimentation into a modern discipline shaped by scientific research, clinical practice, cultural assumptions, and ethical debate.
Students from the author’s class on death and dying explore Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. /...
Nikolaj Lübecker argues for the ethic of “feel-bad” films, movies in which desire for catharsis is built...
Posing for that iconic photograph / Karl Reif, Creative Commons By Rob Horning / 12.20.2016 The authentic...
Ha! Photo by Getty Images By Dr. Thomas Hills (left) and Tomas Engelthaler (right) / 11.20.2017 Hills: ...
Photo from Flickr, Creative Commons By Dr. Mark English / 11.26.2017 The neurologist treating my mother’s Parkinson’s...
By Anna O’Faolan / 11.29.2017 The Ins and Outs of US Moving through life, we cast off...
Using social media can be a masochistic means of escaping the self By Rob Horning / 05.15.2016...
By Gilbert Ross / 11.24.2017 How to Bounce Back from Adversity Everything in life is in constant...
TV control room in Toronto / Photo by Loozrboy, Wikimedia Commons Technology is changing society at breakneck...
By Mark Manson / 11.23.2017 Learning to Transmute Our Sufferings A poor, black female in the segregated...
By Jacob Devaney / 11.21.2017 Master Your Fear of Failure None of us enjoy a smack-down from...
When the ringing of a bell comes to mean something more. Maisei Raman/Shutterstock.com By Dr. Edward Wasserman /...
Simple, yet effective, advice for living life to its fullest from Ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus By Zat...
When rain from Hurricane Harvey flooded Houston and surrounding areas, some people were more eager to volunteer...
Sarah Vaughan by William P Gottlieb. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Pavlo Shopin / 11.15.2017 Lecturer in...
By Dr. Emma Barrett and Dr. Nathan Smith / 10.30.2017 Barrett: Research Fellow in Psychology, Lancaster University...
Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate II, Engraved by Bernard Baron, 1745 / Wellcome Library By Dr. Anna Katharina Schaffner /...
Photo by Gonzalo Baeza/Flickr By Dr. Saskia K. Nagel and Dr. Peter B. Reiner / 10.04.2016...
It’s hard to think pleasant thoughts—but a new study suggests a quick way to make it easier....
By Dr. Art Markman / 11.02.2017 Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing University of...
Confucius sculpture, Nanjing, China. Kevinsmithnyc, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA By Dr. Alexus McLeod / 10.30.2017 Associate Professor of...
Scary pumpkins are the least of what frightens us at Halloween, a day devoted to being frightened. asife/Shutterstock.com...
By Dr. Gary M. Galles / 09.30.2017 Professor of Economics Pepperdine University John Dickinson (1732-1808) was one...
New research is exploring how phubbing—ignoring someone in favor of our mobile phone—hurts our relationships, and what...
A psychologist mines big data on teens and finds many ways this generation—the “iGens”—is different from Boomers,...
By Dr. Marjorie Schuman / 10.20.2017 Clinical Psychologist “The problem is not that there are problems. The...
Coca-Cola executives Robert C. Goizueta and Donald R. Keough toast cans of ‘New Coke’ – a product...
By Mark Manson / 10.12.2017 How to Become an Emotional Ninja Years ago, I knew one of...
Charles Bell The Anatomy of the Brain. / Wellcome Images By Dr. Yaïr Pinto / 09.26.2017 Cognitive Psychologist...