To become more forgiving, we are often told to be more empathic. Empathy is a powerful social adhesive, one that most people believe helps us mediate forgiveness as it increases the likelihood of ...

People living in Western nations today can expect to live a considerably longer life, on average, than 100 years or so ago. The dramatically shorter average life expectancies of the past were skewed ...

It’s first thing in the morning, I’ve plenty to do but I can’t stop thinking about Nicole Kidman’s character from the American TV series I watched last night, The Undoing. It’s a psychological ...

If you’re like many people these days, glancing over your work emails may be the first thing you do after opening your eyes in the morning. In fact, your work is probably in your pocket, travels with ...

The other day, I found out that one of my close friends had an extra ticket to a football playoff game, and he invited another friend instead of me. Hurt by this apparent slight, I thought I must have ...

If only I’d had the courage to say I loved him before he married someone else. I should have gone to law school like I had planned to. What possibilities might have opened up for me? I could’ve ...

It was a scorching Sunday afternoon. So I decided to sip iced tea and watch a cute blond boy – about my age, in brown shorts and a white polo shirt – play around in the open field with his baseball ...

Discovering I have aphantasia helped me understand my response to being assaulted and why I wasn’t debilitated by PTSD When I think back to the night the assault happened, all I find is emptiness. I ...

Patients with eating disorders who feel overweight are often told that the underlying cause is emotional. What if it’s not? People with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa often say ...

In 1975, an anxiety clinic opened at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. This wasn’t your typical clinic: people didn’t go because they were fretful about their health or personal lives, they showed ...

If you’ve been feeling stuck, empty or unfulfilled, you’re not alone. In my work as a psychologist, clients express these struggles frequently. You may feel like you’re just going through the motions, ...

Humans grow up with a powerful drive to learn how things work and why certain patterns and properties exist in the world. Wonder, a word with multiple related meanings, has one sense that captures ...