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Research on the common strategies used to deal with emotions suggests their usefulness differs from culture to culture ...
It’s not an absurd idea. Research from 2024 concluded that being facially expressive is socially advantageous, suggesting it ...
To make the world more beautiful, Emma embraces the joy and vulnerability of dancing with abandon – on a subway platform ...
Helen Keller describes an ecstatic trans-sensory encounter with Beethoven’s Ninth – in a letter read by Gillian Anderson ...
has been hunting sharks off the southern coast of India for 37 years. He spoke to Bharath Thampi in Malayalam.
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 ...
Sexual obsessive-compulsive disorder is a prevalent subtype of the condition. However, for people who experience it, it seems anything but commonplace, as distressing intrusive thoughts deeply at odds ...
once prayed 40 times a day; now, he wanders through northern Italy reflecting on freedom. He is a postdoctoral researcher in political philosophy at the University of Pavia.
Drug treatments for schizophrenia have barely changed in 70 years, but a mix of chance and ingenuity offers fresh hope ...
To some, the idea of leaving a religion can seem as innocuous as cancelling a gym membership. However, for many who have left a faith tradition, the reality is much more complicated. As a psychologist ...
Material possessions can be powerfully alluring – whether it’s buying new stuff we don’t need or can’t afford, or holding on to things for way too long. At the extremes, these inclinations can become ...