Psychology

Research shows that dating profiles written as personal stories—not bullet-point lists—spark greater empathy and romantic interest by creating emotional connection.

As innovation accelerates, outcomes still lag. Veteran care highlights how coordinated systems may be key to advancing mental health treatment.

Studies are revealing the link between suicide and hoarding disorders. Often those with hoarding disorders report depression, suicidal thoughts and behaviour, and social isolation.

Even your sharpest problem-solving skills can backfire. Learn how to turn relentless self-critique into clarity, confidence, and empowerment.

Why does trust feel so fragile for some people? Childhood trauma can shape how we relate to uncertainty, what we anticipate from others, and how we experience ourselves.

Being focused on what is occurring and blending within a given context provides a springboard for harmonious interaction with all relationships. Bending time is a process of converting its restrictions into a recognition of our ecological interdependence.

People who are neurodivergent may struggle with gossip and small talk. This blog gives some reasons why this might be the case.

Some women release a little or a lot of fluid on orgasm. Many release nothing. Either way, many women and their partners feel distressed. Is it normal?

A new study says domestic violence cases are less likely to end in homicide. Here's why that finding is more unsettling than reassuring.

Reflecting on the strength model of self-control, some criticisms of the model, and some of the adjustments that have emerged.

As artificial intelligence completes our thoughts, it can also begin to claim them.

We focus on what screens are doing to young people. But the deeper question is what screens are replacing.

From looksmaxxing forums to extreme bulk-and-cut cycles, male fitness culture has quietly developed a toxic relationship with appearance, and we keep calling it discipline.

Disabled employees reflect human diversity, not a reason for discrimination. Research explains.

Three ways the brain’s memory system sometimes trades detail for meaning.

Personal Perspective: After my first hospital admission for schizophrenia, doctors determined I was permanently, totally disabled. They were wrong. It took a year, but I would fully recover.

Could hyperbaric oxygen treat PTSD, depression, and anxiety? New evidence suggests that this treatment may rewire the brain—and the results are hard to ignore.

"What if” thinking is a natural, adaptive cognitive process that supports learning and emotional resilience. We benefit more from accepting it than repressing it.

The "too articulate" people we’re now told "invaded" autism were there from the very start. The person who first described them in 1925 was erased from autism's history.

Dogs can recognize the emotional state of other dogs by scent alone, and their behavior changes in a manner consistent with their interpretation of that emotional odor.

Aging creeps up on us. We are going about our lives, accomplishing and doing, and then all of a sudden, we find that we are receiving Medicare. Most are unprepared.

People worry about losing their memory as they get older, but what most people don’t realize is that this worry can become a self-fulfilling prophecy unless you nip it in the bud.

Boost your brain health with six science‑backed habits from sleep and exercise to nutrition and social connection that will enhance memory, mood, and cognitive vitality.

How have modern values affected emotions?

Sleep science now explains why the “mind after midnight” specialises in horror stories, and why we should never trust our night-time cognitions, which are driven by negativity bias

Many parents think therapy is the solution when kids struggle. But the biggest lever for change might not be the child in therapy—it might be the parent.

As people re-evaluate their sexual orientation, do labels such as "asexual" and "demisexual" give them permission to be who they are, or do they undermine growth?

LGBTQ+ youth face heightened risks of trafficking due to family rejection, homelessness, and systemic discrimination—vulnerabilities that demand urgent action and community support.

One common four-word comment that parents make to struggling adult children is meant to be encouraging. But it often makes them shut down instead of stepping up.

Measuring the prevalance of kinkiness is a challenge, in part because people are more likely to fantasize about it then try it, and far less likely to identify with it.