After some three decades studying emotions, Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University in Boston, has come to the following conclusion: ‘Not everybody has as much ...

A trip to the telescopes of the Atacama Desert led me to research showing the benefits of feeling connected to the night sky ...

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Your social anxiety nightmare has arrived: an email inviting you to attend a networking event pops into your inbox. Networking events are a special breed of social interaction that are packed with ...

How did the most influential friendship in the history of psychoanalysis fall apart? The historic break-up of Freud and Jung ...

People tell stories all the time: at parties, at dinner with family or friends, at work, in job interviews, on blind dates. Storytelling is pretty much everywhere. But somehow the skill of ...

A criminal investigation is a complex, multifaceted problem-solving challenge. Detectives must make critical decisions rapidly – sometimes involving life and death, based on limited information in a ...

I have dreamed of you so much that my arms, grown used to being crossed on my chest as I hugged your shadow, would perhaps not bend to the shape of your body. For faced with the real form of what has ...

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 ...

I envy voracious book readers. They seem worldly and wise. Also, whatever is happening in their lives, they’re never completely on their own – they always have their books. My mother is one of these ...

How we take in information has a remarkably significant effect on how intuitive or analytical we are in thinking about it How seriously you take a newly discovered disease depends on what you read ...

is a licensed professional clinical counsellor who specialises in treating OCD and anxiety disorders. He is based in California.