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Psychology

How Does Caffeine Shape the Way We Spend Money?

One question for Dipayan Biswas, a professor of marketing at the University of South Florida.

August 2, 2022

Don’t Give Up on Facts

People of all political stripes can spot misinformation. They just need a nudge.

June 22, 2022

Are You a Naïve Realist?

Do you think you see the world objectively and others are biased?

June 22, 2022

Why I Couldn’t Get Over My Brother’s Death

Everybody told me my grief would relent in a year. It only got worse. Was there something wrong with me?

March 30, 2022

My Out-of-Body Experience

In a sensory deprivation tank, I lost my body and found myself.

January 19, 2022

It’s Not Irrational to Party Like It’s 1999

Contrary to what the philosopher said, passion can be a slave to reason.

November 17, 2021

The Neurologist Who Diagnoses Psychosomatics

Suzanne O’Sullivan on what medical science is missing about mysterious illnesses.

September 22, 2021

Existential Comfort Without God

Can natural explanations to life’s big questions be as consoling as religious ones?

September 15, 2021

The Beauty of Crossed Brain Wires

Synesthesia makes ordinary life marvelous.

August 18, 2021

The Transcendence of Tantric Sex

A psychologist argues science can take a lesson from ritual about how to heal.

August 18, 2021

The Fine Line Between Reality and Imaginary

We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.

July 28, 2021