Emotional ‘emptiness’ is a damaging, underexplored phenomenon. Better understanding it could help steer people to fulfilment ...

The plight of threatened species can help us understand – and respond to – the endangerment of local ideas and practices ...

By the time an adult learns they’re autistic, they have often been covering up for years. A period of self-discovery awaits ...

As recognised by ancestral wisdom and Indigenous practices, our need to repair relationships is a deep-rooted instinct ...

Buckle up for a road trip across the US that stops at a Grateful Dead concert, detours via a drug deal and ends at true love ...

Time pressure and the limitations of memory compel you and your listener to engage in a fascinating linguistic trade-off ...

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

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

Cars are filled with ever more communication and entertainment tech, but our minds are stuck with the same limitations ...

is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. He teaches classes in animal behaviour, animal communication, decision-making and science ...