Psychology
Human
The universal psychology lane. Stories about how people relate to one another, themselves, and the world — written for readers who are curious about why we behave the way we do. Sister section to Space Psychology.
Human Behaviour
Wellness retreats are sold as a break from your life. What a 2025 neuroimaging study found is that after seven days, the brain network responsible for that constant inner narrator went about as quiet as it typically does on psilocybin, and nobody in the study had taken anything
Human Behaviour
In 1966, a 10-year-old girl in Wales woke up and told her mother she had dreamed her school vanished under something black; her mother had no time to listen, and 24 hours later a coal tip collapsed onto the building, killing 116 children in one of the most chilling recorded premonitory dreams in modern history
Human Behaviour
Googling a headache rarely settles anything — a Microsoft study found it escalates common symptoms into fear of rare diseases, and of the quarter of searchers it pushed into a doctor's appointment, most turned out not to need one
Psychology
Studies on chronic nail biters keep pointing to the same unexpected personality trait, and it isn't anxiousness. It's perfectionism, a low tolerance for sitting still with something unfinished or imperfect
Psychology
In the late 1960s, a psychologist put twelve-month-old babies through a simple test — leave the room, come back, watch what happens — and the way each child reacted in those few seconds turned out to predict something about how they'd love people well into adulthood
Human Behaviour
Psychology says the person in the friend group who never seems to need anything isn't low-maintenance, they learned in childhood that having needs was the fastest way to become inconvenient
Human Behaviour
Adults who cry more easily in their fifties and sixties aren't becoming fragile, they're finally living somewhere safe enough to feel what younger versions of them had to push through to survive
Human Behaviour
Some of the loneliest people in their fifties aren't the ones without partners or children, they're the ones surrounded by people who only know the version of them that shows up when everyone else needs something
Human Behaviour
Quote by Carl Jung: The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely
Human Behaviour
10 small phrases parents use when they've given up trying to be understood by their adult children
Human Behaviour
Psychology suggests people who suddenly downsize their lives in their 60s — smaller house, fewer clothes, shorter guest lists — aren't giving up, they're finally noticing what was costing them without earning its keep
Human Behaviour
Because Thailand was never colonized, it never had the anti-gay laws Britain imposed on its neighbors — which is part of the reason a visible 'third gender' identity took hold there far more openly than in much of the surrounding region
Human Behaviour
On a South Korean island, most of the professional divers who free-dive twenty meters into the sea on a single breath are grandmothers — some in their 80s and 90s, still working the ocean floor for hours a day, in a tradition once passed only to daughters
Human Behaviour
Identical twins separated at birth and reunited as adults in a Minnesota twin study turned up with parallel careers, the same taste for Miller Lite, and, in one documented case, a childhood dog with the same name — the coincidences got the study famous, but they weren't why it mattered
Human Behaviour