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

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Sixteen years ago, in the far north of Norway, just past a bus stop in the town of Alta and down a series of ramps to the edge of a fjord, I found one of the world’s finest displays of rock art. I’d ...

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

André Vaz is a postdoctoral researcher in the Social Cognition lab at Ruhr Universität Bochum in Germany. His research focuses on how people form judgments and make decisions, particularly examining ...

Martin Wiener is associate professor in the Department of Psychology at George Mason University in Virginia, US. He is an expert in time perception and temporal processing. His work has been featured ...

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