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A new study suggests that Western adults are cultural outliers who learn to reject a natural human love for ornamentation.

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The flipside of biophobia is called biophilia, an innate affinity for nature. Both of these terms stem from evolutionary ...

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

Earlier today, I stumbled upon a memory of Steven Pinker’s account of altruism in his seminal book “How the mind works” as I ...

When users swipe through profiles on dating applications, their brains make split-second decisions based on limited visual ...

Clear out your shelves for a bumper new crop of books by authors including Naomi Klein, Rebecca Solnit and Xand Van Tulleken, ...

A selection of science-based books from the year that together shine new light on who we are and why we think and act as we do.

Research suggests that expressing gratitude can benefit the body in several ways. In the brain, it can lower levels of the ...

These aren't the phrases you'd expect from self-proclaimed "deep thinkers" who dominate dinner parties with their ...