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Psychology

Human behavior is fascinating — and we still have a lot to learn. Keep up with news and updates from the field of psychology.

What keeping secrets does to you

By Sean Illing

The case for regret

By Sean Illing

A survey on global mental well-being shows that the kids are not all right

By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg

Why you (probably) won’t finish reading this story

By Sean Illing

22 things we think will happen in 2022

By Dylan Matthews, Kelsey Piper, and 1 more

A good life is painful

By Sean Illing

How to deal with (even more) Covid uncertainty

By Allie Volpe

The status games we all play

By Sean Illing

What an enormous global study can tell us about feeling better during the pandemic

By Brian Resnick

We admire these do-gooders. We just don’t want to date them.

By Sigal Samuel

How to walk away from an awkward conversation

By Sean Illing

The replication crisis devastated psychology. This group is looking to rebuild it. 

By Brian Resnick

How to make this winter not totally suck, according to psychologists

By Sigal Samuel

How we can encourage people to wear masks — for others’ sake

By Shai Davidai

2020 was a time warp

By Shannon Stirone

“Reality” is constructed by your brain. Here’s what that means, and why it matters.

By Brian Resnick

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“Our calm is contagious”: How to use mindfulness in a pandemic

By Sigal Samuel

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The haunting of Girlstown

A mysterious outbreak. Hundreds of stricken schoolgirls. Was it an illness, or was something darker to blame?

By Daniel Hernandez

Capitalism is turning us into addicts

By Sean Illing

Why Buddhism is true

By Sean Illing

The surprising altruism of babies

By Sigal Samuel

A Stanford psychologist on the art of avoiding assholes

By Sean Illing

Is it okay to sacrifice one person to save many? How you answer depends on where you’re from.

By Sigal Samuel

Is rationality overrated?

By Sigal Samuel

Why willpower is overrated

By Brian Resnick

Why humans are cruel

By Sean Illing

Moral grandstanding is making an argument just to boost your status. It’s everywhere.

By Brian Resnick

American happiness is plummeting. Could a few words change that?

By Sigal Samuel

Is positive psychology all it’s cracked up to be?

By Joseph Smith

How to spend money to squeeze more joy out of life

By Laura Entis

Why old people will always complain about young people

By Brian Resnick

I treat teens who attempted suicide. Here’s what they told me.

By Stephanie Doupnik

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The brutal mirror: what the psychedelic drug ayahuasca showed me about my life

By Sean Illing

Meat is unhealthy, meat is okay: Why science keeps overturning what we thought we knew

By Julia Belluz and Brian Resnick

These scientists want to make psychotherapy sessions much, much shorter

By Brian Resnick

The “10,000-hour rule” was debunked again. That’s a relief.

By Brian Resnick

How desire can warp our view of the world

By Brian Resnick

22 percent of millennials say they have “no friends”

By Brian Resnick

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Is GPS really ruining our brains?

By Brian Resnick

An expert on human blind spots gives advice on how to think

By Brian Resnick