Intimacy always involves risk. But connection is our surest path to transcendence.
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Psychology Today Magazine
January 2017
The most carefully crafted incentives routinely backfire. What does it really take to get people to do the "right" thing?
Gender-based challenges don't necessarily disappear with progress. What happens when women take the reins?
Psychosomatic illness is baffling to both patients and doctors.
Inherited wealth felt more like a burden than a blessing to a young man.
Gene Luen Yang is launching a radical new take on America's most iconic hero.
We're equipped with a number of tools to annihilate stress and grow from conflict.
How our lofty ideas about love relate to the real thing.
Testosterone may spur both benevolent acts and aggressive ones.
Author Carrie Jenkins explores the forces that limit and expand notions of romantic love.
A better understanding of suicide risk and the protective role of connectedness is emerging.
Medical advances have shifted the boundary between life and death.
Young children are surprisingly skilled at evaluating other people.
Does population size influence the popularity of facial hair?
One of the most important ways humans adapt to their environments: via the stomach.
Most Americans get nowhere near enough choline.