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A lifetime of pleasure and pain, beauty and misery, collapsed into a single scene in this sprawling animated artwork ...

is an associate professor of behavioural science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, US.

Put that helicopter back in the hangar and let your children find their own way. Their independence will likely surprise you ...

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We used an electric-shock dilemma to test the strength of people’s moral principles when faced with real-world complexities ...

Family lore smashes into reality in this clever, cutting short about a little girl’s take on her grandparents’ grand love ...

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

Psychology studies cast doubt on old assumptions about legal objectivity. Lawyers and laypeople alike should take notice ...