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is a London-based writer and consultant on science, technology and the future. A former editor-in-chief of New Scientist, he is the author of The Bright Side: Why Optimists Have the Power to Change ...

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is an evolutionary social psychologist with broad interests in how the recurrent challenges of our distant past help us understand our motivational states today. He is the author of The Social Leap ...

is James B Duke Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Neurobiology emeritus at Duke University in North Carolina. He lives in Durham, North Carolina and Brooklin, Maine. He ...

is a lecturer and researcher in psychology at the University of Plymouth, UK, specialising in performance coaching in sport, exploration, business, the military and healthcare. He is the co-founder of ...

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

Young Woman with Her Hand over Her Mouth (c1875) by Edgar Degas. Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ...