Former Pro Bowl tight end Julius Thomas left the NFL when he was just 30. This month he graduated with a doctoral degree in clinical psychology.

What portrayals of cult communities in sitcoms often miss, or gloss over, is the deeply manipulative psychology behind why leaving a cult is incredibly difficult. Research into cult experiences ...

For a spreadsheet-wielding accountant, these moves may make perfect sense. But, by violating fundamental principles of consumer psychology they might backfire in a big way.

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While some psychologists believe laziness isn’t a true personality trait, being lazy can majorly impact your well-being. Here are ten signs of a genuinely lazy person, according to psychology.

In 2017, if you wanted to delete a misspent past from Twitter (now X), you had to do it one tweet at a time. Yes, you could deactivate your account entirely, but I wanted to hang on to my username ...

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Like Tomáš in Milan Kundera’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” we must grapple with the absence of any Nietzschean eternal recurrence or recurrence at all. Once our time at Yale is up, it is up ...

Solving these mysteries is the business of experimental psychology, the field I’ve devoted my life to. But not everyone is satisfied with how we’re doing our job.