Psychology

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.

Psychoactive drugs have long been hailed as miracle cures. But you can only understand the paths they blaze through the mind if you’ve traveled them.

One question for José Arroyo-Barrigüete, an economist at Comillas Pontifical University in Spain.

One question for Nils Köbis, a social psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

One question for Michèle Belot, an economist at Cornell University.

Even when we know they’re “fake,” placebos can tame our emotional distress.

Play and art engage all of our senses and enhance attention.

A positive spin on our past can help inure us against pain.

One question for Matt Killingsworth, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania.