Human Behaviour
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
One unprotected gunshot can be loud enough to permanently injure the inner ear — damaging the tiny hair cells that turn vibration into sound, cells the human body cannot simply regrow
Human Behaviour
A meta-analysis of nearly 47,500 adults found that mortality risk kept falling as people took more daily steps, with the association levelling off at roughly 6,000 to 8,000 steps a day among adults aged 60 and older.
Human Behaviour
Thought of the day from philosopher Charles-Louis de Montesquieu: "If you only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
Human Behaviour
Women born in Spain in 1896 were estimated to average about 151.1 centimetres tall. Those born in 1996 averaged about 163.4 centimetres — a gain of 12.3 centimetres across a century of birth cohorts.
Human Behaviour
In Rajasthan's Karni Mata temple, rats are not treated as pests but as sacred beings — as many as 25,000 of them move freely through the shrine, fed milk, sweets, and grain by pilgrims who believe they are reincarnated family
Human Behaviour
Roughly one human language disappears every few weeks, and each one takes with it words for places, plants, feelings, jokes, and ways of seeing the world that no other language may ever name the same way
Human Behaviour
Thought of the day from theologian Paul Tillich: "Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone, and solitude expresses the glory of being alone."
Human Behaviour
The blues may carry West African Muslim history inside some of its loneliest notes — echoes of Quranic recitation, prayer, and the call to prayer that crossed the Atlantic before surfacing in the Mississippi Delta
Psychology
Retirement can feel less like freedom than disappearance: researchers who study life after work have found that losing a job role can shake a person’s identity as deeply as any major life loss, even when leaving was their choice
Psychology
Carl Jung once said: "Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible."
Human Behaviour
In a remote corner of Sardinia, men were reaching 100 at rates that stunned demographers — not because of one miracle food, but because daily life itself kept them moving, needed, and deeply tied to the people around them
Human Behaviour
Sweden made paid parental leave gender-neutral in 1974, the first policy of its kind — and decades later, fatherhood leave is so normalised that taking time with a child can signal personal responsibility rather than weakness among colleagues
Human Behaviour
Finland has more saunas than cars — about 3.3 million in a country of 5.5 million people — because the sauna is not a luxury there, but a civic room where families, colleagues, and leaders have traditionally said what ordinary rooms make difficult
Human Behaviour
Norway’s prisons are built around a radical idea: inmates will one day be someone’s neighbours again. They may earn wages, cook meals, and watch television in their cells, while the country reports one of the world’s lowest reoffending rates
Human Behaviour