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New research is exploring how our brains translate other people's actions into the experience of feeling loved.

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The monstrously successful HBO series Game of Thrones famously tossed out a lot of good-and-evil fantasy tropes to tell a morally complicated story of how power corrupts even the best people. A ...

My 10-year-old son came to me recently with a question about black holes. Not in the way children usually do, restless and easily redirected, but with the focused intensity of someone who had already ...

For centuries, defining and understanding consciousness has eluded neuroscientists, philosophers, and doctors. Is consciousness what it means to be alive? Is it knowing who we are, as individual ...

A smile in the hallway. A nod of recognition from a stranger. A quick word of thanks to the person bagging groceries. A brief pause to let another driver merge. These moments are so small that they ...

What does it mean to live a good life? Psychologists and social scientists have been focusing on a new idea called flourishing—a sense of well-being that goes beyond just happiness or success. It’s ...