The delightful Psyche Video ‘Le Mots de la Carpe’ by the French animator Lucrèce Andreae shows how silence can be path to ...

The gist of a scene or place can subtly alter our very sense of being, an affecting quality captured by Monet’s paintings ...

From traits like extraversion to specific habits, there are many ways a couple can match. New research tests whether it helps ...

As much as people struggle with not knowing, we live in an uncertain world – and there are advantages to embracing that ...

If experience is a song, mood is the bassline. As your thoughts and sensations flow by, it’s your mood that provides the emotional undercurrent. It predisposes you to respond in certain ways to a ...

A study explores how many words people use a day, whether women really speak more than men, and whether we’re talking less ...

The difference between a brief flirtation and an all-consuming love affair is one of interest. Put a different way: the thing ...

Brought to life with playful animation, nothing is off limits in this intimate chat among friends about living with boobs ...

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, ...

Everyone seems on edge these days. Turning on the news or scrolling through your social media feed provides a constant stream of things to worry about. Many countries have witnessed rapid growth in ...

is a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago, where she studies how emotional phenomena circumscribe moral thought in early modern British literature. She also founded an interdisciplinary ...

Personality traits such as agreeableness and openness to experience can help explain differences in moral judgment Although many moral views seem somewhat universal – most would agree that it’s ...