Psychology
Psychology
Psychology stories — what makes people tick, what childhood patterns shape adulthood, how high-functioning minds navigate the world. Part of our Mind & Meaning editorial section.
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The handshake is said to have begun as proof of an empty hand, no weapon and no immediate threat, and for thousands of years that simple clasp has carried a message spoken greetings still cannot: I come in peace
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In April 1967, a Palo Alto history teacher named Ron Jones invented a movement called The Third Wave to answer a student's question — and by day four, 200 teenagers were saluting him in the halls and informing on classmates who refused
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In March 1966, Neil Armstrong completed the first docking in space, then a stuck thruster sent Gemini 8 spinning once every second — fast enough to blur the astronauts’ vision and threaten unconsciousness — forcing Armstrong to shut down the main control system and save both men with the re-entry thrusters three years before he flew to the Moon
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In 1982, Japan turned walking slowly through the woods into a public-health idea called forest bathing. Then it spent decades studying what forests really do to stress, the heart, and the body
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Sugar may not make children hyperactive: across two dozen controlled trials the sugar did nothing measurable. In one small experiment, what changed was the parent — mothers who thought their sons had been given sugar rated them as more hyperactive and hovered closer.
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A Yale researcher found that people with a positive view of ageing lived roughly 7.5 years longer than those who didn't, a figure Yale itself framed as beating exercise and not smoking
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Elephants communicate through vibrations in the ground at frequencies below human hearing, and researchers have shown other elephants can not only feel these signals through their feet but tell a familiar caller from a stranger
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A new paper argues that Earth's gravity is a hidden anchor for consciousness — and that losing it in orbit loosens the mind in a way that echoes psychedelics
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A 2012 University of Westminster study measured horror-film viewers burning about 113 calories on average, roughly a short walk, as fear and jump scares pushed their heart rates higher
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Quote by Sigmund Freud: “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
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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
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Brain scans found that mothers looking at their own dogs activated some of the same attachment networks as when they looked at their own children — evidence that the bond between humans and pets is biologically real
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We tend to think loneliness is about having no one around, but the Harvard Study of Adult Development points to something more precise: it is not the absence of people but the absence of people who actually know you — a distinction that can leave someone surrounded and completely alone
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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
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