In two prior posts, here and here, I reported on some of the results from an article I wrote for the European Journal of ...

As we age, music can be a pleasurable way to capture the love that motivates us and contain the fear that distracts us.

Comprehensive strategies for suicide prevention and intervention can save lives, even when resources are limited.

According to the late psychologist Silvan Tomkins, anger is one of our nine basic feelings. The others are interest and ...

So it's true that if you feel unattractive, it's harder to enjoy sex. But in a world of media images and looksmaxxing; ...

The neurobiology of nocebo responses suggests a potential role for hypnosis in their reduction. Negative expectations can ...

One missed workout or skipped day can feel like the whole effort has come undone. Here's what personality science says about ...

Only when emotion is elicited in safety can we hope for a therapeutic outcome.

I've seen so many parents who are angry, ashamed, and devastated when their adult child doesn't meet their expectations.

What happens when algorithms infer our mental health from digital breadcrumbs? New questions arise about privacy, boundaries, ...

There’s also a curious linguistic coincidence here. Psychology has a g in general intelligence. Artificial general ...

My last blog posts calling for a scientific turn in philosophy and the abandonment of aprioristic philosophy largely resulted ...