For me and many others, contemplating death has clarified what matters. These curiosity-based exercises will get you started ...

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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 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 ...

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I always thought I could be an asocial primate. I cannot.’ How microbes helped James connect with the human-scale world ...

is a research psychologist and psychotherapist in Colorado, US. He conducts research on sexuality, romantic relationships, sexual assault prevention, and the development of mental disorders across ...

Clinicians have long recognised the link between worry and planning. New research asks what this means for managing anxiety ...

A ‘no pain, no gain’ mentality might make sense when striving for change – but don’t confuse discomfort and distress ...