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Accusing someone of virtue signalling is to accuse them of a kind of hypocrisy.

Trainers working with dogs every day have documented extraordinary talents and skills. Will science ever catch up?

What is it like to feel love and share physical intimacy yet feel no sexual attraction to the person you are with?

Viewing dementia as an erosion of the self might serve a protective function — but new research challenges this long-held idea.

Existential therapy explores the darkest corners and craggy edges of the many-sided self. The result is true transformation.

All families have secrets, from the innocent to the deeply sinister. Are there good reasons to keep them under wraps?

But how's that working for us now?

The imperative to avoid being or appearing unhappy has led to a culture that rewards a performative happiness.

To answer the question of what literally everything is made of, we have to think beyond physics.

Humans and chimps pass, elephants and dolphins apparently don't. Is the mirror test a reliable mark of self-awareness?

A ragged curtain, a creaking attic, a dark cellar — what explains the architecture of creepiness, and its enduring appeal?

Until recently, this debate over whether actors literally lose themselves in their roles was largely a matter of conjecture. However, a pair of research papers in psychology published this year has provided some concrete evidence, and results suggest that actors' sense of self is changed profoundly by their characters.

Charles Sanders Peirce was a brilliant philosopher, mathematician and scientist. His polymathic work should be better known

The first newspapers contained not high-minded journalism but hundreds of readers' letters exchanging news with one another.

Market booms and busts might be irrational, but we can understand why they happen and what to do to mitigate the damage.

Only since the Enlightenment have we been able to imagine humans going extinct. Is it a sign of our maturity as a species?