I’m very drawn to positive psychology. I like how it aims to show what is going on psychologically for people who are happy, rather than defining happiness, functioning, or normalcy by looking to ...

Anxious people tend to overestimate threat. Learn how this plays out as clinical anxiety and how to change this tendency.

Peter Ellerton is affiliated with the Rationalist Society of Australia. Read about the event elsewhere and it turns out the athlete was also beaten by thousands of people and it was a participation ...

To learn what happens in the brain when someone dehumanizes another or does the opposite by focusing on the humanity of another, Jack’s team used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to record ...

We have a lot of thoughts about the word ‘way.’ In religious terms, it refers to a deliberately chosen life path, or religion. In spiritual discussions, it can mean the way of your soul’s (and ...

Cognitive distortions, or thinking errors, can take a toll on our mental health. Here are five such thinking patterns and ways to overcome them. We are all vulnerable to certain “thinking errors,” ...