That was five minutes, bro. A little puncture…’ What happens when a childless comedian decides to get a vasectomy at age 35 ...

The gesticulations that accompany your speech are so much more than mere hand-waving – they contain and convey meaning ...

Some individuals have a persistent tendency to want ever more stuff and status. Psychologists are examining the lives they ...

Research is revealing the mood benefits of making intuitive decisions, but some situations call for an analytical approach ...

Future generations deserve good ancestors. Will you be one? The living, the dead and the unborn are all here with us: we must respect their interests and their world as much as our own The myth of ...

The short animation Self Scratch captures a young woman’s anguish and fading confidence through her deteriorating relationship with her body. The mirror becomes a battleground as the woman’s ...

Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon Media that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts.

is an assistant project scientist in the META (Memory Emotion Thought Awareness) lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work uses neurobiological and experimental approaches to ...