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Emily Herring is a writer based in Paris. She is the author of Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People. She received her PhD in the history and philosophy of ...

We must escape the psychological trap where grave warnings about existential threats trigger ever more destructive behaviour ...

Robert J. Hartman is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Gothenburg Responsibility Project at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. He is the author of In Defense of Moral Luck: Why Luck Often ...

The problems of our time are too complex for heroes to swoop in and simply erase. Our movies should reflect that reality ...

The most useful description of attention, for me, comes from the meditation teacher Shinzen Young and his Unified Mindfulness system. As he describes it, attention is composed of three skills working ...

Not being able to recognise faces can be an obstacle – but it has also given Steven the ability to see beyond the obvious ...

It’s good that we’re taking sleep more seriously than we used to, but the messaging about its importance has gone too far ...

Most cults don’t make the headlines. Here’s how to identify, and avoid, control by psychologically coercive social groups ...

Social scientists have long documented the ‘warm glow’ of altruism, a good feeling that comes from doing a good deed. But ...