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Bartek Zyczynski/Shutterstock The Power in Writing About Yourself
Introspective writing keeps people alive and well. A new tool makes it easy. Maybe too easy.
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Four Oaks/Shutterstock Tricking People Into Being Healthy
Why people might be more likely to get a flu shot if it's free rather than $1 or $5
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d26b73/Flickr Seeing Red
How the color of passion, romance, and anger can influence behavior
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Andrey_Popov/Shutterstock/The Atlantic The Skype Psychologist
What video-chat therapy sessions offer that in-person visits don't
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Adam Voorhes The Mysterious Vanishing Brains
How could 100 jars of human brains—taken from deceased patients of an Austin mental hospital—just disappear from their home at the University of Texas?
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Marzolino/Shutterstock/TheAtlantic Gratitude Without God
If giving thanks isn't inherently religious, where does it come from?
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Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters Chocolate, Memory Food
Important ties between food and mental functioning keep coming.
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Shaheen Lakhan/Flickr The Role of the Supernatural in the Discovery of EEGs
After Hans Berger received an uncanny telegram, he spent years trying to measure psychic energy.
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Courtesy Alicia Service Dogs for Sexual-Assault Survivors
Around 30 percent of rape victims suffer from PTSD. Now, some are adapting the four-legged treatment used by military veterans to ease their trauma.
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Conway L./Flickr Behind the Writing on the Stalls
Why do people scribble on bathroom walls? Other than, you know, for fun.
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Miranda/Flickr Cleanliness Is Next to—What?
A new study suggests that dirty environments make people more likely to lie, cheat, and otherwise behave badly, but past research has found that mess actually makes people more moral.
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Toby Melville / Reuters The Persistent Myth of the Narcissistic Millennial
People are still lobbing the same accusations at Millennials, even though evidence shows they're not any more self-absorbed than their predecessors.
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mario/Flickr The Science of Laughing Through the Tears
A new study shows that illogical reactions may help people regulate their emotions.
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K J Payne/Flickr A Study Gives Mysterious Chronic-Fatigue Syndrome Some Legitimacy
Researchers found noticeable differences in the brains of CFS patients, offering a small antidote to the skepticism often given to this medically unexplained condition.
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Katie Brady/Flickr The Brain on Architecture
Looking at buildings designed for purposes of contemplation—like museums, churches, and libraries—may have positive measurable effects on mental state.
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maglyvi/Shutterstock/The Atlantic The Brain Makes Its Own Ghosts
In a new study, researchers were able to induce people to feel a presence behind them using a robot, which has implications for understanding schizophrenia and consciousness itself.
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Lauren Giordano/The Atlantic The Caffeine-Alcohol Effect
Why quaffing energy-drink cocktails may be riskier than sticking to booze alone
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Malcolm Carlaw/Flickr Have You Heard? Gossip Is Actually Good and Useful
Talking behind other people's backs may not always be nice, but sometimes it can help promote cooperation and self-improvement.
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fedewild/Flickr Where Age Equals Happiness
In the U.S., well-being tends to be highest in a person's earliest and latest years. But elsewhere, new research shows, quality of life follows a very different pattern.
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Darhil Crooks/The Atlantic Learning to Live With the Voices in Your Head
Some experts think the problem is how doctors and society treat people who hear things, not the voices themselves.
