Psychology

How the Twin Desires of Connection and Autonomy Motivate Us to Success

William von Hippel on the Psychology Behind the Human Need for Independence and Acceptance

 
By William von Hippel  February 4, 2025
Psychology

The Green-Eyed Monster: On the Benefits and Pitfalls of Experiencing Envy

By Dr. Guy Leschziner  December 11, 2024
Psychology

What the Timelessness of Modern Malaise Reveals About the Human Condition

By Viktor E. Frankl  August 26, 2024
Psychology

Paternal Instinct: Why Men Go Gaga Over Babies, Too

By Sarah Blaffer Hrdy  May 16, 2024
Psychology

All Publicity is Good Publicity: How Simple Familiarity Influences Our Decisions

By Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris  July 17, 2023
Psychology

Spare Me the Humblebrag: David G. Myers on the Virtues of Humility

By David G. Myers  December 6, 2022
Psychology

How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe

By Tracy Dennis-Tiwary  May 18, 2022
Psychology

What It Took to Finally Write Honestly About My Mental Illness

By Joanne Greenberg  May 5, 2022
Feature

How Important Is It to Be Friends with Yourself?

By Anna Machin  February 11, 2022
Psychology

How to Finally Stop Obsessing About That Thing That Keeps You up at Night

By Moshe Bar  February 9, 2022
Psychology

How Our Social Emotions Laid the Foundation for Functioning Societies

By Leonard Mlodinow  January 12, 2022
Psychology

The Scapegoat: Siri Hustvedt on the Torture and Murder of Sylvia Likens

By Siri Hustvedt  December 7, 2021
Psychology

“The Strangest Sense of Freedom.” On Jane Eyre and the Power of Narcissism

By Josh Cohen  October 26, 2021
Psychology

The Unavoidable Trap of Politeness: Why Is It So Hard to Just Say “No”?

By Vanessa Bohns  September 10, 2021
Psychology

Mapping the Cerebral: What Are Dreams and Why Are They Essential?

By Sidarta Ribeiro  August 16, 2021
Psychology

The Human Behind the “Monster.” On the Misrepresentations of Forensic Psychiatry

By Dr. Gwen Adshead and Eileen Horne  July 21, 2021
Psychology

The Gift and Curse of Being a Truth-Teller: On Receiving an Autism Diagnosis as an Adult

By Michelle Gallen  June 24, 2021
Psychology

Objectophilia: On the People Who Fall in Love with Inanimate Things

By Genki Ferguson  April 30, 2021
Psychology

On Spite: The Pros and Cons of Being Deeply… Petty

By Simon McCarthy-Jones  April 14, 2021
Psychology

I Rethink, Therefore I Am: On the Importance of Second Opinions

By Adam Grant  February 16, 2021
Psychology

In Defense of Psychoanalysis and Writing Freudian Fiction

By Jessica Gross  August 19, 2020
Psychology

The Unlikely Optimism of Viktor Frankl

By Franz Vesely  May 11, 2020
Psychology

Brief Interviews with Imaginary Friends (and the Kids Who
Love Them)

By J. Bradley Wigger  September 9, 2019
Psychology

On the Parenting Insights of the Non-Parent

By Amanda Stern  May 30, 2019
Psychology

How Do People Actually… Change?

By Lori Gottlieb  April 2, 2019
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