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Psychology

September 2024

  • Jessica Buchanan at ALX Community in Alexandria, Virginia, in August

    How we survive
    ‘They’d ask me: “Do you want to die today?”’ How I was kidnapped by pirates – and rescued by US Navy Seals

  • Unhappy child sitting on a floor

    The ‘staggering’ rise in childhood anxiety is not a mental health crisis

  • Abi Daré shot for OM in a garden

    Self and wellbeing
    ‘Why did I hurt?’ A writer on grieving the father she never really knew

  • Toddler in a blue sweater, cupping his face in his hands and smiling

    Notes and queries
    Readers reply: What is the evolutionary purpose of blushing?

  • Philosophy professor Jeffrey J Kripal: ‘Thinking about a UFO as some kind of extraterrestrial spaceship is naive’

  • Ask Philippa
    I find conversations with dates dissatisfying, specially when they tell me the plots of films

August 2024

  • A Ouija board

    Science Weekly
    Summer picks: the science of ‘weird shit’ – podcast

  • Noel and Liam Gallagher in 2008

    ‘Anger is blinding’: family therapists on how to resolve sibling feuds

  • Picture of a woman seeking calm

    How to build a better life
    Do you really want a divorce? Or are you just ‘getting divorcey’?

  • Emma Beddington

    No brothers or sisters? That doesn’t mean you’ll grow up spoiled and lonely

    Emma Beddington
  • Self and wellbeing
    I love Springsteen and my daughter is a huge Swiftie – and that’s created a bridge between us

  • Riots, shootings, sadism… blame it on the boredom of social media

    Martha Gill
  • ‘The liberating truth is: they’re probably not thinking about you’: Oliver Burkeman on how to quit people-pleasing

  • Weekend
    Actor Gillian Anderson on female desire, singer Chappell Roan’s slow and steady rise, and how to stop people-pleasing – podcast

  • Baby boomers: why the swaggering levels of overconfidence? Could it be your age?

    Mark Egan
  • Science Weekly
    Summer picks: what does the science say about birth order and personality? – podcast

  • Scrolling through online videos increases feelings of boredom, study finds

  • The modern mind
    Why dismissing the loudness of modern life is the key to regaining the stillness of the present

    Sara Mussa
  • Linking two realms: efforts to tap real-life potential of lucid dreams advance

  • Self and wellbeing
    My dad’s dying gift to me: a love of butterflies

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