NEVER NOT IN DANGER
The Durable Feeling That A Child Is Always At Risk
In times of medical crisis, the ways that doctors and nurses communicate with frightened parents can have lifelong effects on infants.
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A TALE OF TWO HEMISPHERES
Do Brains Operate At A Tipping Point?
New experimental results simultaneously advance and challenge the theory that the brain's network of neurons balances on the knife-edge between two phases.
DON'T MOVE TO DENMARK
A Happiness Researcher Relates The Ten Things You Should Do If You Want To Be Totally Miserable
Writer Helen Russell explains the building blocks of happiness in a TED talk.
WORKING TOWARDS WELLBEING
All-American Despair
For the past two decades, a suicide epidemic fueled by guns, poverty and isolation has swept across the West, with middle-aged men dying in record numbers.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING IDLE
Why Ambition Is Overrated
I used to be embarrassed by my lack of drive, until I realized that the strange moral value we place on overwork is sapping our lives of joy.
BRAIN, HEAL THYSELF
A New Mental Health Treatment Is Non-Intrusive, Game-Like And Effective
Neurofeedback can put thoughts in your head and help you conquer phobias — even when you're unaware of what it's doing
THAT'S ALL IT TAKES
The '3.5% Rule': How A Small Minority Can Change The World
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts — and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
GUYS BEING DUDES, ALONE
Male Loneliness Starts In Boyhood
The problem goes beyond emotionally stunted men and the burden they place on women. To understand the cause of male loneliness, just look at the friendships of boys.
EMPATHOLOGICAL CONDITION
Understanding The Highly Sensitive Person
People are finding relief in a personality trait that explains their extreme sensitivity.
A SUPPOSEDLY TRUE THING I'LL NEVER DO AGAIN
Why We Are Addicted To Conspiracy Theories
In January 2015, I spent the longest, queasiest week of my life on a cruise ship filled with conspiracy theorists.
TURN THAT SMILE UPSIDE DOWN
Against Cheerfulness
Practicing the Greek virtues of wisdom and courage is one thing. But being cheerful the American way borders on psychosis.
OLD HABITS DIE HARD
Why Are We More Prone To Scams As We Get Older?
Sure, we have more experience — but that may actually be part of the problem.
SCREEN SCREED
What It Takes To Put Your Phone Away
Our attachment to social media is clearly affecting the health of the body politic.
How the ‘Ikea effect’ subtly influences how you spend
Having customers do most of the work, feel great about it, and at the same time perceive they have attained ‘greater value for money’ is the Holy Grail for companies. Here’s why.
OPENING THE X-FILES
The Politics Of UFOs
In the past few years, the world of UFO "researchers" has been afflicted by the kinds of conspiratorial cracks that have appeared throughout American culture: Who can be trusted?
RUNNING OFF-BALANCE
Why Extreme Wellness Is So Popular
Marathons, fasting and silent retreats — the psychology behind hardcore health.
A LITTLE HARM FOR A LOT OF WELLNESS
But The Drugs Keep Me Sober
Most recovery programs require total abstinence to be considered sober. But is a sober performance worth your sanity and personal safety?
NO TEARS LEFT TO DRY
How I Bombed My First Therapy Session
Finally I decide to say something, but as the words leave my lips, I'm convinced that I've just uttered the dumbest thing any therapist has ever said in the history of the field. I say, "Yeah, you seem depressed, all right."
PASSING HATE AWAY
Grandma's Dementia Made Her Forget Her Homophobia
After watching how my family treated my lesbian mom, I assumed it would all repeat when I came out. But as my grandma's memory faded, her disapproval of gay people vanished too.
'WHERE WAS I?'
The Dreams Of A Man Asleep For Three Weeks
On March 22, 2018, I was rushed to the hospital for life-saving surgery. Due to complications with the procedure, I didn't regain full, coherent consciousness until the second week in April. For three weeks I was stuck inside my own mind, subject to a seemingly unending series of dreams.
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