The Romantic Personality Quiz is just one lens through which to view relationship patterns. Relationship psychology offers ...

A key to mental health is feeling connected to your true sense of self. When things start to go astray, a new paper suggests three ways to find your way back to who you truly are.

Calling consciousness an "entropic engine" points to something psychologically obvious: selfhood costs energy. Maintaining a stable "me" model across time, contexts, and internal contradictions ...

Just before the mass shooting that left 15 dead and dozens more injured during a Hanukkah celebration at Australia’s Bondi Beach, two elderly bystanders attempted to disarm one of the attackers.

Your self-concept is the way you see yourself—the sum of beliefs, ideas and opinions you hold about who you are. It quietly ...

A large international study of more than 45,000 people shows that narcissism is a universal personality trait—not one concentrated in any single country.

Eli Elster does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

I don't know about you, but every time a semi-convincing conspiracy theory crosses my desk, I feel like Alice in Wonderland spiraling down a rabbit hole of frantic Google searches that could ...

Mark Fabian does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

What makes humans conscious? Scientists disagree, strongly, as one group of peacemakers discovered the hard way. By Carl Zimmer Consciousness may be a mystery, but that doesn’t mean that ...

Where in the brain does consciousness originate? Theories abound, but neuroscientists still haven’t coalesced around one explanation, largely because it’s such a hard question to probe with the ...

Conspiracy theories have been with us for ages, and they seem to be becoming more absurd as time goes on. But how and why do people end up falling for these absurd ideas, and why is it so hard to talk ...