Psychology

A new book explores what drives the brain’s sometimes insatiable quest for vengeance

Probably not

What 450 million song plays tell us about how our listening habits evolve

A childhood spent under the spell of sleight-of-hand taught me skepticism, curiosity, and the habit of looking beneath appearances

Rabidly consuming TV shows, movies, or books could make us more imaginative and able to cope with stress

Some people have extraordinary powers of mental time travel

People took mushrooms, then studied famous paintings. Here’s what happened.

Talking with philosopher Nathan Crick about using mass persuasion for good

Your brain and the Anna Karenina effect

A new online game could help researchers solve the mysteries of musical memory

There’s a German word for that feeling

Centuries-old wisdom may ring true on food-fueled nightmares