Psychology, it’s said, has a long past but a short history. A popular version lists three stages. First, around the turn of the 20th century, psychologists tried to capture the stream of conscious ...

Feedback sounds great in theory but can feel brutal in practice. It can sting when someone tells you the design you've poured hours into "isn't quite right". Yet some of the most ...

The most common explanation for why people don't change is that they're lazy. They lack willpower. They know what they should do and simply can't make ...

For many children, books weren’t an escape from real life so much as the first place their inner world felt vivid, valid, and worth paying attention to.What stayed with them wasn’t just a love of ...

The loss of a long-term romantic partner represents a major disruption in one’s life pathway. A new paper on relationship endings provides hope for how to find your way back.

Many couples worry they’re not having enough sex. But the science suggests a modest “sweet spot” and reveals what actually drives satisfaction.

As I have pointed out since the first term of the Trump administration, Donald Trump was never merely a leader in the conventional sense; he is a phenomenon. This phenomenon embodies a worldview in ...

You want that new video game so badly, but you’re trying to knock your credit card balance down. Or you’re binging your ...