Psychology

I have emetophobia, an extreme fear of vomit. I kept this secret from almost everyone. When I tried to explain to close friends, they typically replied, "I…

That’s one theory for the cognitive differences seen in people with autism. “There are indications that the balance between bottom-up sensory, and top-down…

On a white restaurant tablecloth in San Francisco, under the glow of a stained-glass dome ceiling with images of laurels, fleur-de-lis, and a ship, rested a…

Our desire for comfort via familiarity starts in infancy, when we look for familiar faces, such as our mother’s, for food and safety. After that, the…

Gil Tal lives in Davis, California, where winter daytime temperatures are in the mid-50s and annual rainfall is well below the national average. But the…

The pandemic presented many unwelcome circumstances, but it also provided an opportunity for people to consider their life choices and adjust course as…

When kids and teenagers think about the future, they have an extra burden: They have to deal with more of it than adults. An adult might look at the United…

However it’s packaged, purity—of mind, body, planet—doesn’t exist. “There is no primordial state we might wish to get back to, no Eden we have desecrated, no…

There are times when you get so busy all you want to do is hide from that never-ending to-do list. You’re exhausted from playing whack-a-mole, rushing to…

More than 80 percent of people fail at their New Year’s resolutions by mid-February, and while everyone certainly has their own contributing factors, there…