Psychology

A pediatric oncologist describes the lessons of his practice.

Are you judging your decisions on their outcomes?

High school teachers are bringing ice cream into the lab.

The universal grip of Stephen King’s personal terrors.

The science of the wandering mind.

This month’s Ingenious, Stephen T. Asma, on what haunts us.

What a modern version of the sci-fi assessment would look like.

Our brains are compelled by category violations.

We think we know more than we do—including how machines will behave.