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

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

Some people tune into bodily sensations while daydreaming, others don’t – with implications for anxiety, depression and ADHD ...

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

Surveying his life, Carl Jung reflects on the collective unconscious, his clash with Freud and humanity’s uncertain future ...

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

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

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

As a schoolboy in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, my hands were almost never clean. Don’t get me wrong – I washed them as much as anyone else. But the school rules made us practise our penmanship in ink, ...

Roughly two-thirds of people have had déjà vu, or the weird feeling that a new situation has been experienced before. Yet its prevalence belies just how mysterious the phenomenon remains to ...

One major source of protection from feelings of anxiety and despair is the sense that one is leading a meaningful life. If you feel that your life is lacking a sense of meaning, you might struggle ...

We’ve all been there. You’re minding your own business, when you overhear a colleague mentioning the recent increase in the price of carrots. ‘They’re 70 cents a kilo now,’ he might say. You know he’s ...