Between burnout and bore-out, there lies an optimal level of stress that can motivate you and enhance your performance ...

Research on the common strategies used to deal with emotions suggests their usefulness differs from culture to culture ...

To make the world more beautiful, Emma embraces the joy and vulnerability of dancing with abandon – on a subway platform ...

How do you move through the world? With a plan and destination in mind, headphones or a car stereo drowning out the world, perhaps? In this short film, the filmmaker Mykhailo Bogdanov makes a ...

Drinking like a philosopher: what does Immanuel Kant have to say about the role of intoxication in our overlooked lives? Intoxication is a central component of the human experience. Drugs like opium, ...

When I first met Bill* at a Los Angeles coffee shop I frequent, I thought he was homeless. He was wearing a rumpled, food-stained shirt, and his hair was a matted-down tumbleweed that hadn’t been cut ...

When our self-respect, status and social identity are threatened, we ought to defend ourselves and shame our wrongdoers ...

once prayed 40 times a day; now, he wanders through northern Italy reflecting on freedom. He is a postdoctoral researcher in political philosophy at the University of Pavia.

Many of us are drawn to the idea of meditating – motivated, perhaps, by scientific evidence that it supports wellbeing, health and cognition. In practice, though, if you’ve ever downloaded a ...

To some, the idea of leaving a religion can seem as innocuous as cancelling a gym membership. However, for many who have left a faith tradition, the reality is much more complicated. As a psychologist ...

Material possessions can be powerfully alluring – whether it’s buying new stuff we don’t need or can’t afford, or holding on to things for way too long. At the extremes, these inclinations can become ...

How did humans create the earliest words? Iconic vocal sounds, which match form and meaning, likely played a key role Language gives us the power to describe, virtually without limit, the countless ...