Psychology
The Costs of Feeling Lonely in a Crowd
An interview with a loneliness researcher about the varieties of social isolation
Can Plants Count?
It seems as though they can at least track the number of events in their environment
The Students Who Believe Practice Makes Perfect Get Pretty Perfect Grades
There’s a reason it’s a popular aphorism
The Internet Has Not Killed Reading—or Attention Spans
An interview with Kevin Ashton, MIT technology pioneer and author of The Story of Stories
Heat Probably Doesn’t Make You More Aggressive
An interview with a behavioral economist about cake, climate change, and cooperation
Did Music Give Rise to Language?
An interview with a music cognition researcher about the evolutionary roots of music
Babies Learn the Art of Deception Before Their First Birthday
Kids love to lie—almost right from the womb
What Doomsday Prophecies Say About Us
An interview with medieval studies scholar and apocalypse expert Matthew Gabriele
Humans Can Read the Expressions and Feelings of Our Primate Cousins
Just like our primate cousins can read human expressions
