Some individuals have a persistent tendency to want ever more stuff and status. Psychologists are examining the lives they ...

Research is revealing the mood benefits of making intuitive decisions, but some situations call for an analytical approach ...

Future generations deserve good ancestors. Will you be one? The living, the dead and the unborn are all here with us: we must respect their interests and their world as much as our own The myth of ...

Through vivid, surreal illustrations, a filmmaker captures her fraught relationship with her body after a breakup ...

Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon Media that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts.

We all constantly filter a flood of details coming in. This process helps explain what gives some brains a creative edge ...

Feeling worn down, checked out, or bitter about work? The answer is not to ‘just work harder’. Try these steps instead Photo by kunertus/Getty ‘I’m exhausted.’ As a clinical psychologist who ...

is professor of music at Indiana University, US. Her books include The Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry (2013) and Song, Landscape, and Identity in Medieval ...

Temptation can be sneaky – a rationalising voice that subtly undermines your resolve. But there are ways to outsmart it ...