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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An octopus was filmed carrying two halves of a coconut shell across the seafloor to reassemble them later as a portable suit of armour, one of the only clear cases of a wild invertebrate using tools.
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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."
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The man who wrote the best-selling self-help book in history, Think and Grow Rich, claimed the secret came from a private mentorship with Andrew Carnegie — but Carnegie's own meticulously kept visitor records show the two men never met.
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Astronauts, soldiers, and elite performers are all taught the same handful of body-based techniques to shut down panic in seconds, and none of them involve thinking positive thoughts.
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Titan's air warms the surface and its sky cools it: the greenhouse effect adds about 38 degrees Fahrenheit while the high-altitude haze subtracts about 16, leaving the surface about 22 degrees warmer than Titan's effective temperature
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On a popular South Korean online marketplace, more strollers were sold for pets than for babies in the first three quarters of 2023 — 57 percent pet, 43 percent baby, against 33 percent pet only two years earlier
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People who feel uneasy around those who think or live differently aren't simply closed-minded — brain imaging suggests their amygdala is physically larger, and fires harder in response to the unfamiliar
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A growing population of women over 40 are choosing to stay single, and many are not treating it as a temporary gap between relationships — surveys find older single women are far less likely than men their age to be looking for a partner at all
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A man in a Batman costume stood silently on a Milan train, a few metres from a woman who appeared pregnant, and never once interacted with her or anyone else — yet his presence alone was followed by a jump in the share of passengers who offered her a seat from roughly one in three to two in three
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Hundreds of people wrote to a Bristol newspaper in the 1970s about a hum they could feel more than hear — a warehouse fan was blamed, the warehouse closed, the reports continued, and fifty years later the same complaint has been filed across continents by people who have never met
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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
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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
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The most extensive review of dementia risk to date found nearly half of all cases trace back to 14 everyday factors, from hearing loss to untreated vision problems, most of which have more to do with your health than your age
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I used to treat boredom as a problem to be solved and now I treat it as a signal, which sounds like a small reframe until you realise it changes almost every decision you make between 6pm and midnight
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