Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Ph.D., is a freelance journalist who regularly contributes to Discover Magazine. She reports on the social sciences, medical history, and new scientific discoveries. View Full ...

Psychology is a scientific field focused on studying the way the human mind works and how it influences behavior and personality, according to the Cambridge Dictionary. The field is not definite ...

British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) famously stated that “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to ...

In her article about the importance of unconscious thought, Kate Douglas writes: “Modern notions of the subconscious were invented by Sigmund Freud as part of his now discredited theory of ...