is a clinical psychologist based in Philadelphia, US. Her poetry, essays and feature articles have been published by The New ...

Though relationships are grounded in shared memories, some gaps and inaccuracies can help us live well in a social world ...

Sometimes, when I’m grappling with a tricky topic, I pretend that I need to explain it to a child. For example, here is my attempt at explaining the purpose of this Guide to a notional nine-year-old: ...

Research with transgender people sheds light on the memory processes that allow any of us to navigate periods of change ...

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What do people look at and what meanings do they make when a Kandinsky is on show in a power station guarded by a muscleman?

Whether an act seems ‘good’ depends on how you look at it. Brain research reveals what happens when the lens changes ...

The novelist and poet Ursula K Le Guin shows we can reject nihilism and naive optimism by practising our collective freedom ...

From increasingly frequent extreme-weather events, such as floods and wildfires, to rising temperatures that yield eerily mild winters and hellishly hot summers, the effects of climate change have ...

Scenes from books, movies and games sometimes carry as much weight as events from people’s own lives. We’re finding out why ...

When someone provokes you, it’s easy to react without thinking. Learn to slow down and respond in ways you’ll be proud of Try as we might to avoid it, it’s inevitable that we’ll sometimes run into ...

Clanking cowboys, hard-working women and fighting dogs populate the landscape of an Aboriginal artist’s childhood ...