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 ...

Formality: roughly, how formal and public a relationship is vs informal and private; Activeness: how close and involved vs ...

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 ...

Andrei A Buckareff is professor of philosophy and co-director of the cognitive science programme at Marist College in New York. His works include Causing Human Actions: New Perspectives on the Causal ...