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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.
Psychology
The Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, who survived four Nazi concentration camps…
Psychology
Psychologist Roy Baumeister ran a large study on what separates a happy life from a…
Psychology
Researchers compared 5,556 people across 10 nations and found that parents tended…
Psychology
Most people don't realize Maslow revised his famous hierarchy of needs, and the top…
Science & Engineering
When a human and a dog gaze into each other's eyes, both of them release oxytocin
Psychology
Steve Jobs told a New York Times reporter in late 2010 that his own children had…
Psychology
In a Japanese preschool, the shoes line up by themselves, the snack bowls sit on a…
Psychology
Neuroimaging research on jazz improvisation suggests creative flow may have less to…
Psychology
A Yale study found that how you think about getting older may add 7.5 years to your…
Psychology
Researchers stopped people to ask for directions, swapped in a different man while…
Science & Engineering
Sister Mary, a Catholic nun who belonged to the School Sisters of Notre Dame and…
Psychology
In 1975, an American developmental psychologist demonstrated that when a parent…
Psychology
At twenty, the brain processes information faster than it ever will again
Human Factors
Stanford psychologist Laura Carstensen found that when older adults were asked to…
Psychology