Self-control, grit, growth mindset – trendy skills won’t transform children’s lives, but more meaningful interventions can ...

Research on how we perceive the rate of change shows how you can be strategic about goal tracking and boost your motivation ...

A lot of people think they know how to sharpen pencils, but… they don’t.’ A guide to doing it right, by an artisanal pro ...

In my work as a psychotherapist, I often encounter clients who find it hard to make sense of themselves, appealing to ...

All of this is only mine through you.’ Time and identity collapse in a trans poet’s evocative message to her former self ...

What contagious crying, comforting hugs and other cute behaviour in infants tells us about the roots of emotional connection ...

In the Austrian Alps, a mother dedicates her heart and crisper drawer to a pet tortoise, lovingly captured by her son ...

For the men and boys of the Dom community in Varanasi, sacred cremations demand a lifetime of exhausting, dangerous labour ...

Research suggests that people who express their gratitude more effusively are judged as lower status and less influential ...

Knowing the reasons people opt not to know – and the consequences of that choice – could help us see when it’s problematic ...

Friendship is a force that runs deep through the human soul. It fosters trust, emotional balance and mutual support. It binds individuals and shapes communities, both in ordinary times and in moments ...

Check out this wonderful Aeon Essay by Kristin Ohlson, ‘The Great Forgetting’ (2014), on memory and forgetting in childhood. And, as a buttress against the oblivion that is forgetfulness, the Psyche ...