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.

A visionary evolutionary biologist, he drew comparisons to Charles Darwin with his theories on the genetic roots of seemingly ...

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

For a long time, people have been asking whether certain demographic traits are associated with higher risks of believing in conspiracy theories. For example, there is plenty of literature trying to ...

The director of Duke University’s Mind & Culture Lab conducts research that sits at the intersection of culture, development, ...

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 ...

"Two people can care about each other but be in very different life phases." "The taxi cab theory suggests that someone ...