Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast

Beauty

Around the World, Who Spends Time on Their Looks and Why?

Laith Al-Shawaf Ph.D. on October 25, 2022

Around the world, who spends time on their physical appearance and why? A 93-country study with 93,000 participants reveals the answers.

Mating

What Drives People’s Social Lives Globally?

Laith Al-Shawaf Ph.D. on September 26, 2022

How much do people worldwide care about staying safe, avoiding disease, making friends, gaining status, finding and keeping romantic partners, and caring for family?

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

What Are Emotions?

Laith Al-Shawaf Ph.D. on December 28, 2021

What are emotions, exactly? New developments reveal a great deal about what emotions are and how they work.

Genetics

No, Evolution is Not Random

Laith Al-Shawaf Ph.D. on December 3, 2021

Do you think that evolution is "random", or that natural selection is a "chance" process? If so, you might be making a key error.

Myers-Briggs

Detecting Bull**it

Laith Al-Shawaf Ph.D. on October 25, 2021

Interested in psychology? If so, you should know why astrology, homeopathy, the Myers-Briggs, and The Secret are all bunk.

Anxiety

Evolution Explains Puzzling Aspects of the Human Mind

Laith Al-Shawaf Ph.D. on July 11, 2021

Evolutionary thinking resolves several mysteries and offers us the gift of self-knowledge along the way.