You probably think you’re listening to my voice right now. But what if I told you that you’re actually experiencing a sophisticated hallucination?Perception isn’t the passive process that most of us ...

For decades the term “Monday blues” has been shorthand for the collective groan that greets the start of each workweek. It’s also well documented in medical statistics. Mondays come with higher rates ...

Laurie Santos, a psychology professor at Yale and host of “The Happiness Lab” podcast, pointed to research from John and Julie Gottman, the renowned marriage researchers, that suggests happy couples ...

A new study highlights how people around the world often overestimate climate skepticism and presents ways to push back on this misperception.

The staff at my local library are usually a convivial bunch, but when I asked them about a recent report that fewer people were reading for fun, they grew subdued....Elizabeth A.L. Stine-Morrow, a ...

At the same time, professors were coming under more pressure to tend to their students’ emotional well-being, Amanda Claybaugh, Harvard’s dean of undergraduate education, told me. They received ...

Scientists who have shaped our understanding of clinical cognitive neuroscience, mental health, and racial biases are among ...

Joy—Finding Happiness in Troubled Times, in which the 14th Dalai Lama and the late archbishop Desmond Tutu talked about their friendship and offered lessons on creating ...

APS Fellow Stephan Lewandowsky (University of Bristol) and colleagues have recently developed the Anti-Autocracy Handbook, which they describe as “a call to action, resilience, and collective defense ...

It is no secret that people are often drawn to romantic partners who seem similar to themselves. This tendency, called assortative mating, has been established in humans (Horwitz et al., 2023; Luo, ...

What is a good life, and how can we create it? “We wanted to capture more explorative, adventurous, creative types of good life,” like those of artists and poets, said Shigehiro Oishi, a psychologist ...

The Carolina Reaper is so hot, it makes jalapeños taste like milk. It’s so hot, it causes people to hallucinate, vomit, pass out, wish they’d never been born. It’s so hot that the guy who invented ...