Linguist Ferdinand de Saussure claimed verbal thinking occurs through minimal differences of sound within a language. Change-a-Letter puzzles test this theory.

Psychology says that people who barely post anything on social media are not boring but actually smarter because they are better at not comparing themselves to others.

What causes workplace sexual harassment? How can we continue to better understand it? And what can be done to prevent it? Successful answers to questions like these need a good scientific explanation.

George Eliot saw literature as uniquely capable of extending our sympathies, but her work engaged deeply with scientific ...

Research on the midlife crisis reveals why at ages 40 to 46 you can feel the most unhappy in your life, and how to rebuild your mental state afterward.

Some habits that get written off as ‘rude’ or ‘weird,’ especially in social situations, are probably being analyzed in the wrong context.

From historical analogies to game theory models, Dr Xueqin Jiang has built a global following by arguing that geopolitics follows patterns that can be studied, modelled, and, to some extent, predicted ...

Some said it was “for fear of tarnishing the image of a man who has become the face of the Latino civil rights movement.” ...