Psychology

Why people believe their own lies.

Turns out there can be a positive side to the psychopathic traits that may lurk inside all of us.

A new analysis shows the most widely cited happiness studies relied on poor research methods.

We can rewrite the script on bad dreams.

Bullet-ridden B-17 bombers taught us to look for what’s missing.

These bizarre beliefs are strikingly prevalent across a diversity of cultures. Why?

One MIT-trained poet spent nine months trying to find out.

We’re not so different from an error-prone chatbot.

Confession is the key to mental healing.

One question for Adam Mastroianni, a psychologist at Columbia University.

Why is it possible to mistake parts of someone else’s face for your own?

8 ways psychedelics distort our vision.