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 ...

Something curious happens in two people’s brains during supportive interactions. It could help explain their emotional power ...

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

Far more than an evolutionary imperative, caregiving is a gateway to our deepest humanity, and may explain our intelligence ...

She wasn’t ours. We knew that. We reminded ourselves of this constantly, as the days turned to weeks and then months. We had ...

Intrusive thoughts about doing bad things are common, but for people with OCD they provoke deep fears about the self ...

You might wonder how to increase your enjoyment of literary works, how you might amplify literature’s value, and savour more fully the pleasures of language and form, of idea and insight that works of ...

Filmed for the BBC series Face to Face in 1959, this archival interview features Carl Jung surveying his life and extraordinarily influential career at the age of 84, just two years before his death.

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 ...