Some musical rhythms are built to get us bobbing, foot-tapping or dancing. Researchers show how rhythmic complexity matters ...

Ecstatic moves, magic moments – this animated short documentary details one basketball fan’s love of the arena’s big screen ...

Other practices like sermons, yoga and retreats can also trigger ‘spiritual boredom’. Here’s why it’s normal and even useful ...

Far more than an evolutionary imperative, caregiving is a gateway to our deepest humanity, and may explain our intelligence ...

Formality: roughly, how formal and public a relationship is vs informal and private; Activeness: how close and involved vs distant; Exchange: how much it involves trading concrete resources like money ...

Filmed for the BBC series Face to Face in 1959, this archival interview features Carl Jung surveying his life and extraordinarily influential career at the age of 84, just two years before his death.

One way to capture this idea is to say that pleasure picks out something (an object or state of affairs) in the world – it has a target. However, this is only one part of the story. For something to ...

I was 11 the first time I saw her. It was September – at least, I think it was. The trees were shedding. The mountains, ripening from green to red. Mom remembers it as September, too, but Dad says it ...

Motivation – and the lack of it – can feel like one of the most paradoxical, often frustrating experiences we face on a daily basis. How can we intensely want to eat dessert, study or go to the gym, ...

In my recent work led by the cognitive neuroscientist Micah Allen at Aarhus University in Denmark, we wanted to expand on these findings to explore what happens when our wandering streams of ...