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
Nearly every atom in your body is swapped out over the years, so in a real sense you aren't made of the same material you were a decade ago — yet you feel like the same person
Human Behaviour
In 2012, researchers mapping census data across England found that communities closer to the coast reported slightly better general health, with the strongest pattern appearing in more deprived areas. Later studies found similarly modest associations with mental health, including better scores among some urban adults living within one kilometre of the sea.
Human Behaviour
Japan created a national ministerial post for loneliness in 2021, becoming only the second country after Britain to appoint such a minister, after data linked prolonged social isolation to a measurable rise in suicides during the pandemic.
Human Behaviour
An ant carrying a crumb across your kitchen floor can lift and haul around 50 times its own body weight — the human equivalent of a person carrying a small car up a flight of stairs without slowing down
Psychology
Quote by Sigmund Freud: “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
Psychology
America’s loneliness problem may not be a failure of social skills, but of design — suburbs, cars, and homes built for private family life, with fewer everyday reasons to meet the people next door
Human Behaviour
The word hikikomori was coined by Japanese psychiatrist Tamaki Saito in the late 1990s to describe young people who withdraw completely from society, and he estimated even then that over a million were shut in their rooms across Japan.
Human Behaviour
Falling in love with a machine is no longer science fiction: about one in five American adults says they have chatted with an AI built to act as a romantic partner, and among young men it is nearly one in three
Human Behaviour
Only about one in five workers worldwide feels truly engaged at work, a 2026 Gallup report finds, a slide to its lowest level since 2020 that it estimates costs the world economy close to a tenth of its total output in lost productivity every year
Human Behaviour
For most of history the worry was too many people, yet by 2050 some 155 of the world's 204 countries will not have enough babies to sustain their populations, a Lancet study projects — a quiet reversal of the fear that defined the last century
Human Behaviour
Quote by Maya Angelou: “Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”
Psychology
There is a small window in a boy's life, between the ages of four and six, when he is strikingly emotionally perceptive and openly expressive — and a researcher who followed six boys through those years watched something quietly close inside them, one stage at a time
Human Behaviour
An Aboriginal Australian people of northern Queensland speak a language with no words for left or right — only for north, south, east, and west — so instead of asking you to move your left foot, they will ask you to move your east foot, and can point due north almost without thinking
Human Behaviour
A Japanese soldier named Hiroo Onoda continued fighting the Second World War in the Philippine jungle until 1974 because no one had reached him with orders to stop — when his former commanding officer finally flew in to relieve him personally, Onoda was 52 years old and had been at war for nearly 30 years
Human Behaviour