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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Being ignored, excluded, or overlooked at work inflicts more damage on our physical and mental health than does being harassed, a new study shows. Canadian researchers found that while most people ...

Believe it or not, the Internet did not give rise to procrastination. People have struggled with habitual hesitation going back to ancient civilizations. The Greek poet Hesiod, writing around 800 B.C.

This article concludes a three-part series in which a team of researchers in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America explores the longtime dominance of psychological science by researchers in ...

More than 40 years ago, two researchers from the US traveled to a remote region in Papua New Guinea, seeking to answer a fundamental question about human nature: Do all people understand and express ...