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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Like the fertile soil of a well-kept garden, a life of splendid, utter uselessness yields abundance beyond our immediate aims John Alec Baker was not an ornithologist by profession. He had a regular ...

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

Ever since Plato started telling stories about people trapped in caves, philosophers have pondered the relationship between the mind and reality. How can we be sure that the world we think we know is ...

It is the question I am most often asked at the playground when other parents find out I am a professor of ancient Chinese philosophy: ‘Does Chinese philosophy influence your parenting?’ It’s a fun ...