In 2013, the psychologist Roy Baumeister and three colleagues published a paper with a plain title: "Some Key Differences between a Happy Life and a Meaningful Life.
Anxiety is still more often treated as a mood problem than a biology problem. A new study makes that harder to justify.
Roger Penrose does not think a computer will ever be conscious, and he does not think a brain running on ordinary neural computation would be conscious either.
A short walk, paddle, or cycle in green surroundings tends to lift mood and how you feel about yourself.
Two of the most substantially used words in the current global vocabulary of mathematics and computing come from the same 9th-century scholar — associated with…
Approximately 26 years after the small dog-shaped robots went on sale, the ones that stopped working are being given Buddhist funerals at a rural temple in Chiba Prefecture.
Do a few small kind things on a bad day, and the day may sting less. That is the plain finding of a 2016 study in Clinical Psychological Science.
The island is called La Gomera. It sits in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 300 kilometres off the west coast of Morocco, in the western half of the Canary Islands archipelago.
Ask most parents what matters to them most in life and the answer is immediate; their kids.
Start with a single number: about 117 billion. That is the Population Reference Bureau's estimate for how many people have ever been born on Earth.
Ask people to picture a good commute and many of us imagine the same thing: quiet.
Half the ingredients in what most of the world now considers its national cuisine were, on 11 October 1492, on the opposite side of the planet from where they would eventually be eaten.
In 1966, Murray Bowen formalised the family projection process, a clinical account of how anxiety can move through family relationships. Later behavioural and epigenetic studies examine different mechanisms and do not establish Bowen’s model as inherited biology.
Here is a fact that probably unsettles almost everything a psychology textbook taught you about human motivation: the pyramid at the centre of the story was never drawn by the man whose name it carries.
The last person to catch smallpox naturally was a 23-year-old Somali hospital cook named Ali Maow Maalin, who was diagnosed on 26 October 1977 in the town of Merca on Somalia's Indian Ocean coast.
The oldest verified evidence of the emotional bond between humans and dogs is the small skeleton of a puppy that would have died in a matter of days if the Ice Age hunter-gatherers who buried it had not spent approximately six weeks nursing it back to health.
