Human Factors
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.
Human Factors
In March 1966, Neil Armstrong completed the first docking in space, then a stuck…
Psychology
In 1982, Japan turned walking slowly through the woods into a public-health idea…
Psychology
Sugar may not make children hyperactive: across two dozen controlled trials the…
Psychology
A Yale researcher found that people with a positive view of ageing lived roughly…
Human Factors
Elephants communicate through vibrations in the ground at frequencies below human…
Human Factors
A new paper argues that Earth's gravity is a hidden anchor for consciousness
Science & Engineering
A 2012 University of Westminster study measured horror-film viewers burning about…
Psychology
Quote by Sigmund Freud: “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike…
Psychology
America’s loneliness problem may not be a failure of social skills, but of design
Science & Engineering
Brain scans found that mothers looking at their own dogs activated some of the same…
Psychology
We tend to think loneliness is about having no one around, but the Harvard Study of…
Psychology
There is a small window in a boy's life, between the ages of four and six, when he…
Psychology
The reason your mind wanders has nothing to do with discipline or willpower, and a…
Psychology
Between the mid-teens and the mid-twenties, the human brain records an unusually…
Psychology