As a geologist and geochemist by training, Defant told The Fix, his background is sometimes used against him by his opponents ...

When it comes to relationships, men and women have been under somewhat different evolutionary pressures. As a consequence, women tend to connect love and sex more than men do.

Evolutionary psychology provides a foundational framework for understanding how cognitive and behavioral traits have evolved in response to recurring ...

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

This creates a powerful loop: a negative thought enters the brain, and, due to its distressing contents, the brain signals ...

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

New research suggests that a potential partner’s willingness to protect you from physical danger is a primary driver of ...

If you wonder whether he is serious about you, psychology offers clear answers. These eight signs show when a man truly loves ...

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

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.

Why do we love who we love? Why do some relationships endure while others fall apart? In The Intimate Animal: The Science of Sex, Fidelity, and Why We Live and Die for Love, Kinsey Institute Executive ...