The genre mocking the outdated habits boomers insist on keeping assumes newer is…
We mock older generations for clinging to phone calls and handwritten notes, but neuroscience and psychology suggest they were onto something all along.
Relationships & Society
Relationships, identity and social behaviour, including how institutions and technologies reshape the way people live together.
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In a survey of over 20,000 adults, the generation that scored as the loneliest…
Our intuitions about loneliness have it backwards: the young feel it most acutely, and understanding why upends everything we thought we knew about connection in modern life.
A Carleton University study followed 119 students through two midterms and found…
A two-midterm study linked self-forgiveness after heavy procrastination with less delay next time, but its observational, self-reported design sets important limits.
Psychologists call it Solomon’s paradox: the reason you can give brilliant advice…
Our wisest counsel evaporates the moment we need it most—and neuroscience is finally explaining why.
Why some people fill quiet moments with noise, screens or activity
The discomfort of silence often runs deeper than distraction—it's a signal that something beneath the surface is demanding attention.
Quote of the day by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung: “We cannot change anything…
Self-condemnation might be the one thing keeping you stuck in the patterns you're most desperate to escape.
The advice to make a vision board in tough times runs into an awkward finding…
Visualising your dream future feels good but may leave you too drained to pursue it—and research suggests the practice could actually deepen depression rather than lift it.
Researchers studied more than 34,000 elite performers across sport, science, music…
A Science review of 34,839 adult top performers found early junior success and eventual senior excellence were associated with very different development paths.
A study of more than 33,000 adults found that how you accumulate your daily steps…
Among 33,560 adults taking no more than 8,000 daily steps, longer dominant walking bouts predicted lower mortality and cardiovascular risk, with important caveats.
The hidden cost some eldest daughters carry when responsibility came before their…
The eldest daughter’s competence can conceal a childhood role in which everyone else’s needs came first. Parentification research explains the pattern and its limits.
Nobody talks about why some of the kindest people end up with the fewest close…
Being easy to be around and being genuinely known draw on almost opposite instincts. One smooths the surface, the other lets it crack, and confusing the two can leave the kindest people with the fewest close friends.
Why one-sided questions can make a polite conversation feel distant
The most revealing sign of disinterest isn't rudeness—it's relentless politeness paired with total indifference to your life.