psychology

Short-term thinkers take shortcuts. Take the long path instead, explains futurist Ari Wallach.

You want your baby’s name to be unique, but so does everyone else.

From health to leadership abilities, a good sense of humor can help improve many aspects of life.

Should you confess to cheating? A Columbia ethics professor explains.

Foster your own moments of mystery.

When your passion becomes your day job, sometimes the day job becomes a chore.

Here’s how to avoid getting duped by the “dark patterns” of online businesses.

A new study concludes that eating more carbohydrates reduces a person’s risk of major depressive disorder.

Contrary to popular research, people with more money are happier, but it’s their spending habits, not their account balances, that move the dial.

Paradoxically, some do it for erotic reasons.

By exposing people to small doses of misinformation and encouraging them to develop resistance strategies, “prebunking” can fight fake news.

The ultimate definition of trauma, explained by leading psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk.

We don’t understand why loneliness is bad for us if all we can say is that it hurts.

It’s perhaps never been harder to resist the urge to overspend.

Your mentors made time for you. Now, go and make time for others.

Children as young as three have been defined for life by IQ tests.

Today’s scary clowns are not a divergence from tradition, but a return to it.

To be happy, you have to become antifragile first. Harvard’s Tal Ben-Shahar explains.

Your brain is wired for trauma. And it can be hot-wired to forget it.

Parents want the best for their kids, but resilience helps children better cope with life’s unavoidable challenges.

Studying neuroscience through art.

A technique called targeted memory reactivation could improve common treatments for nightmare disorder.

Fear creates distraction, and that can be a positive experience.

Antidepressants can help alleviate PTSD symptoms when paired with psychotherapy, but does our overenthusiasm for them blind us to more effective alternatives?

Meditators invert the relationship between the layers of self-processing.

Nothing meaningful is done quickly.

Inside the metaverse, your emotions and physical responses will be monitored, and AI will use that data to influence you in real time. Is that essentially mind control?

When other treatments fail, this radical surgery could help.

Balancing realism and optimism in a dire situation is a key to success.

There are 38 kinds of secrets. The average person has 13 at any given moment. Michael Slepian explains how that can affect your health.