Picture this: you’re standing in a crowded plaza, camera in hand, completely absorbed in capturing the perfect shot of an ...

Sad Christmas songs help with loneliness and stress. Psychology explains mood-congruent listening and why Phoebe Bridgers fixes December.

A team of UChicago psychology researchers used fMRI scans to learn why certain moments carry such lasting power ...

Rabbi Bruce D. Forman writes “when approached thoughtfully, Christmas can function as a once-a-year invitation for Jews to rest, reset, soften our emotional guard, and rediscover our own ...

Homer’s The Odyssey still shapes modern storytelling, influencing films, novels, and television through its ideas of return, ...

Loss and grief can cause cloudy thinking, intrusive images, or problems with attention and memory. If a loved one is now unreachable, our memory system needs time to adjust to this new reality. When ...

Katherine Duncan doesn’t experience memory the way most people do. She can’t vividly relive the past or picture it in her ...

This year, psychological scientists tackled profound and varied questions to help us better understand ourselves and the ...

The farmer in the fable dies, but the lesson survives. Mercy without memory invites betrayal; power without truth invites disaster. Japan today stands at a crossroads, between peace and war, and ...

A minority of people have hyperthymesia, or highly superior autobiographical memory, so they can remember events in their ...

Smelling expensive, then, isn’t about wealth. It’s about intention. A way of moving through the world with a quiet, fragrant ...

Researchers in Strasbourg have been exploring whether zombies can serve as a useful model for scientific research. Despite being a product of fiction, it appears ...