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Many of us crave trivial details while ignoring much of the world around us. Research helps explain this selective curiosity ...

Contrary to classic habit science, certain behaviours never become easy. Recognising this can help you stick with them ...

has spent more than 20 years as a journalist, writing primarily about sexuality. Now in her mid-40s, a member of the sandwich ...

The early Chinese philosophers knew that a healthy mind comes from a harmonious community, not a matter for individuals alone Mental illness is often thought to be a matter of individual disorder.

In the therapy room, I’ve seen how rethinking what we are – and what it means to ‘be dead’ – can lighten our fears ...

At a time of rising intolerance, the century-old work of C E M Joad reminds us what tolerance really is and why we need it ...

Social psychology research is breaking down the process of perspective-taking and revealing ways to help us get along better The acrimonious exchanges between overly invested parents and underpaid ...

But his most memorable job remains making bread with those labeled unfit to live in society. At 5 am, a correction officer ...

Studies of longterm friends offer surprising insights as to whether friends who are more or less alike tend to endure Bring to mind the friendships in your life: what do you think makes some of them ...

People living in Western nations today can expect to live a considerably longer life, on average, than 100 years or so ago. The dramatically shorter average life expectancies of the past were skewed ...

Filmed for the BBC series Face to Face in 1959, this archival interview features Carl Jung surveying his life and extraordinarily influential career at the age of 84, just two years before his death.