In my therapy office, I’ve found that to live with greater purpose, we must think differently about where it comes from ...

For many who are chronically connected, a break from tech sounds appealing. Research is uncovering when and how it helps ...

Why has the ‘learning styles’ theory persisted without any evidence? And what do we actually know about how we learn?

Given the popularity of astrology columns, self-help books and personality quizzes, there’s plenty of reason to believe that most – if not all – people are intrigued to learn more about themselves, to ...

I’d always been interested in the stories my parents and grandparents told about their lives in Iraq, which seemed so impossibly distant from my childhood in 1970s London. It was only when I became a ...

is an English teacher who’s interested in the stories people tell themselves and what those reveal. After years of exploring different kinds of therapy, she found an unlikely source of insight in an ...

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To some, the idea of leaving a religion can seem as innocuous as cancelling a gym membership. However, for many who have left a faith tradition, the reality is much more complicated. As a psychologist ...

In 392 CE, the Roman emperor Theodosius I outlawed one of the oldest and most well-established mystery cults in the Greek-speaking world, the Eleusinian Mysteries, which had taken place for more than ...

How did humans create the earliest words? Iconic vocal sounds, which match form and meaning, likely played a key role Language gives us the power to describe, virtually without limit, the countless ...

At a time of rising intolerance, the century-old work of C E M Joad reminds us what tolerance really is and why we need it ...

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