If you’re a woman in midlife who has spent any time online recently, you’ve probably come across the words ‘perimenopause’ or ‘brain fog’ in a news article or in your social media feed. Maybe you have ...

‘Resilience’ has become one of our favourite compliments. People praise resilient children, resilient workers, resilient patients, resilient communities. The word shows up in school mission statements ...

Awkwardness is ultimately a form of anxiety – often an uncomfortable, self-conscious feeling that the social order has been punctured in some small way. Yet there can be something quite funny about ...

Online spaces at the nexus of nutrition and wellbeing are teeming with their own form of junk food – quick fixes, sponsored ‘advice’ and pseudoscience conflated with the real thing. However, as the US ...

The thought experiment known as Newcomb’s paradox pits participants against a supercomputer with near-perfect predictive ...

The sense that a dead person is still with us is both eerie and common: can we find a naturalistic explanation for it?

In the mid-15th century, when Johannes Gutenberg began experimenting with movable type, the scribes who had spent their lives copying manuscripts by hand could not have known they were witnessing the ...

For someone experiencing a panic attack, fear can become an all-consuming feedback loop, with a fit of anxiety quickly careening into a fear that they might lose control and faint, or even die. In ...

It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that ain’t so. – quotation from the 19th century, likely apocryphal The year was 1993 and, aged 16, I was ...

In an age of strong political commitments, a Nahuatl word encapsulates the freedom to let go of what has become oppressive ...

In my work as a clinical psychologist, I have supported numerous people who described feeling listless, apathetic, and lost in life. These clients often say they lack a guiding light to direct their ...

We are curious creatures. Not (just) strange, but eager for knowledge. We spend much of our waking lives seeking out and consuming information in some form or another: watching television, listening ...