Psychology

It’s a nice day, you’re strolling along, music’s queued up, prospects looking good, your sweater’s matching your…

If you would like to know what it feels like to die, while at the same time continuing to live, you have a number of…

Once a day, at least, I’ll tear up listening to music. Just a drop or two, or not even a drop, just a pre-cry…

Writing-directing duo Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley’s Strawberry Mansion imagines a world where the time people…

Among the recreational drugs currently entering the psychiatric mainstream (MDMA, LSD, etc.), ketamine is something…

At what passes for its best, technology would seem equipped to provide a slight relief from tedium/despair, or a…

Mark Zuckerberg fucking loves Facebook. He thinks it’s great. Were someone to tell him it sucked—using phrases like…

Scientists should use magic tricks to better understand animal intelligence and perception, argue a team of…

It is the rare person who—logging off after a long day’s scrolling—thinks, “I need much more of that in my life.”…

Remember offices? Assuming that you do, and that you at some point worked in one, you’ve likely spent at least some…

Lizmarie Oropeza imagined that when her 17-month old foster son, Caden, hit his milestones—pointing, learning to…

If everything in your peripheral vision suddenly changed from color to black and white, would you notice? There’s a…

It’s a fraught thing, selfie-taking. One moment you’re thinking of yourself as more or less human-looking, and…

In 1966, Joseph Weizenbaum created Eliza, the first psychotherapy chatbot. Eliza’s programming was relatively…

Reality has plenty of exit-hatches: strong drugs, streamed television, certain corners of social media. But the most…

It’s not often that a paper attempts to take down an entire field. Yet, this past January, that’s precisely what…

Assuming that you don’t have an infinite supply of money—assuming your supply of money is, like most personal…

Life’s hard for the humorless—loved ones die, hurricanes and infections ravage the planet, and all they can do is…

A couple years back, a team of research psychologists ID’d a phenomenon called “cute aggression,” wherein the sight…

A new study is the latest to show how indistinguishable false memories are from real ones. People who watched…