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Psychology Today |
The long ascent from matter to mind
Research on personality traits helps explain why some of us fall for scams.
Male body image, identity, and the hidden mental health cost of content creation
The important thing you don't know about February’s Annual Black History Month.
Your beliefs about time management may be doing more harm than good.
How charity: water cracked the code on donor psychology
How flexible thinkers can thrive when systems aren't perfect.
A Personal Perspective: Being fatigued feels different for the chronically ill.
Psychology and religion can help us in loving our culturally diverse neighbors.
For those seeking therapy in France, there are real protections, and real gaps.
Recognizing and reversing emotional drift.
How AI may design our future and quietly reshape human agency and behavior.
How to keep showing up for your goals without relying on willpower or shame.
How AI companionship might be reshaping how we connect with others.
How certain speech acts impair moral agency and how correcting them restores it.
Between adolescents and parents, time becomes a growing source of contention.
Why what we remember becomes who we are.
Pleasing a perfectionist is impossible.
The evidence is clear: Control is a fist. Peace is an open hand.
How the psychological humanities can help us accomplish both.
The complexity of Jewish identity may worsen the animus against Jewish people.
Guilt can help transform empathy into prosocial action.
Personal Perspective: No meetings. No requirements. No dues. Just joy!
A new book discusses the science of unhappiness and how we can suffer less.
Cyber threats are ominous, real, affect millions, and are increasing.
Personal Perspective: Therapy is not "navel-gazing."
Research on the ineffectiveness of school book bans.
The desire to walk away often indicates a deeper internal struggle.
Why some people turn to AI for emotional support.
Addressing the question of how affect and certainty are related.
A multidimensional identity is best for flourishing.
Personal Perspective: Your child is always with you because you carry them in your heart.
What Alysa Liu's joy reflects back to us about our own unlived possibilities.
You do not want a clinician who treats you as a diagnosis.
Appreciating how one prolific prankster serves up laughter by the pound.
How proactive coping can change your outlook.
If you’re a beginner, just a few minutes of meditation is enough.
Why overthinking is becoming a developmental minefield for children and teens.
Caring across generations has hidden benefits.
How to prevent your nervous system from collapsing under relational stress.
Personal Perspective: On perspective-taking and the doors we forgot to open.
How AI could lead to an implosion of inspiration, intuition, and interrogation.
A new twist on the classic nature-nurture debate in personality change.
Cocaine's back—and now it's the fastest-growing Illegal drug worldwide.
Personal Perspective: Ancient self-governance played out on Olympic ice.
Why visualising desire can backfire.
History shows us we do not need to medicalise problems to support people.
How body positivity influences sexual confidence, communication, and intimacy.
How couples decide to step back when extended family pushes too far.
The repair practice breaks the parental guilt cycle better than trying to be perfect.