To make the world more beautiful, Emma embraces the joy and vulnerability of dancing with abandon – on a subway platform ...

Chatbots make us feel uniquely seen and heard, but then the ‘empathy gap’ kicks in and the relationship turns sour ...

It’s not an absurd idea. Research from 2024 concluded that being facially expressive is socially advantageous, suggesting it ...

Helen Keller describes an ecstatic trans-sensory encounter with Beethoven’s Ninth – in a letter read by Gillian Anderson ...

Inspired by his own experiences, an animator evokes the stormy tides of order and obsession in a striking portrayal of OCD ...

has been hunting sharks off the southern coast of India for 37 years. He spoke to Bharath Thampi in Malayalam.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

How do you move through the world? With a plan and destination in mind, headphones or a car stereo drowning out the world, perhaps? In this short film, the filmmaker Mykhailo Bogdanov makes a ...

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 ...