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Perhaps it’s time we stopped treating midlife as a countdown and started recognising it as a peak.
By understanding why people commit crimes that damage the environment, we can better hold environmental criminals accountable.
New research reveals that when you post on social media may matter more for your mental health than how much you use it.
Friendship isn’t a tit-for-tat balance sheet, but that’s how researchers have traditionally defined it. New studies are refining the model to be less about transactions and truer to real life.
The way someone forms emotional bonds with their caregivers as a child can increase the risk they’ll be violent to a partner later in life. But other factors play an important role.
Here’s what happens in your brain when you can’t get a tune out of your head.
Jane Austen’s interconnected webs of thought and feeling help readers to better understand other people.
Empathy develops earlier than you may realise.
By cranking up the difficulty on the test task, researchers found that children are capable of finding systematic solutions to complex problems far earlier than psychologists had believed.
And how you can use psychology to help you break out of the habits you want to lose.
You don’t need to be a rebel to defy. Defiance isn’t about personality, it’s a practice – one that’s becoming essential in workplaces, politics and everyday life.
The strong bonds that users are forming with their AI chatbots rest on the human imagination at work.
Kids with good executive function tend to grow up to be financially stable, healthy, productive adults. Past attempts to teach these skills have flopped. New brain research on language may change that.
The autonomous sensory meridian response may be linked to certain personality types and traits such as introversion.
Why scientists still can’t agree what dreams are for.
Combining psychology and geography has huge potential for improving mental health services.
Female leaders are under pressure to excel, professionally and personally, without showing weakness or strain. The emergence of neoliberal feminism helps explain why, and a milestone in psychology describes what can result.
People with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder gain 5kg in five years. The average person gains 1.5kg.
There is no genetic or biological basis for dividing the human race into distinct “races.”
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