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Psychology

Essays and videos offering insights into the self, relationships, cognition and neuroscience
Beautiful! | Aeon
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Family life

On a whirlwind morning, a couple learns if they’re facing an unplanned pregnancy

7 minutes

Drawings of my BF | Aeon
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Love and friendship

When drawing your muse hundreds of times becomes an exercise in love

7 minutes

The diver | Aeon
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Love and friendship

A decade after his wife was swept away in a tsunami, Yasuo still searches the sea

9 minutes

Still the one | Aeon
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Gender and identity

‘I didn’t fall in love with a couple of body pieces’ – on marriage and transition

3 minutes

My Duduś | Aeon
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Animals and humans

What happened when one woman raised an abandoned squirrel as her own

8 minutes

Perfecting the art of longing | Aeon
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Mood and emotion

‘Let me dream you into my reality’: memories illuminate an unthinkable isolation

12 minutes

The right person | Aeon
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Love and friendship

The right person

Contemporary wisdom says that happiness is the measure of a marriage. But is that a harmful way of judging relationships?

Joshua Coleman

Connected | Aeon
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Love and friendship

Skiing blind is a challenge – but it helps to have a loved one to guide you

20 minutes

Tainted love | Aeon
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Love and friendship

Tainted love

Love is both a wonderful thing and a cunning evolutionary trick to control us. A dangerous cocktail in the wrong hands

Anna Machin

Composite | Aeon
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Information and communication

From mental image to sketch – how memories and emotions conjure up a face

23 minutes

The love story story | Aeon
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History of ideas

The love story story

Neither psychology nor anthropology fully understand love: only history sees that it’s all about the time and the telling

Barbara H Rosenwein

Deal breakers | Aeon
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Personality

Art students divulge (and animate) the dating pet peeves they find unforgivable

3 minutes

The dark side of love | Aeon
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Mental health

When crushes become crushing – how to know if you’re in a ‘limerent episode’

4 minutes

Inga | Aeon
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Life stages

Love evolves and death isn’t worth your worry – life lessons from an 88-year-old

7 minutes

Attached | Aeon
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Childhood and adolescence

Attached

From cradle to grave, we are soothed and rocked by attachments – our source of joy and pain, and the essence of who we are

Mostafa El-Kalliny & Zoe R Donaldson

Treasure them | Aeon
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Love and friendship

Treasure them

Sure, lovers and children are great. But friends are more than ever the heart of happiness, of family and of love itself

Anna Machin

Colette | Aeon
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War and peace

A French resistance fighter reluctantly revisits her past in this Oscar-winning portrait

25 minutes

My brother’s keeper | Aeon
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Love and friendship

A former Guantánamo Bay prisoner and his guard reunite as equals 13 years later

21 minutes

Bear with me | Aeon
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Love and friendship

Can you find ‘home’ in another person? What it’s like to follow love across borders

5 minutes

Turn off the gaslight | Aeon
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Mental health

Turn off the gaslight

The skilled manipulator casts a shadow of doubt over everything that you feel or think. Therapy can bring the daylight in

Ramani Durvasula

The Starr sisters | Aeon
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Love and friendship

After traumatic childhoods, two sisters dedicate their golden years to fun

15 minutes

In dog years | Aeon
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Animals and humans

The joys and heartbreaks of loving a creature who ages faster than you

11 minutes

Broomstick weddings | Aeon
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Rituals and celebrations

Broomstick weddings

From Kentucky to Wales and all across the Atlantic, the enslaved and downtrodden got married – by leaping over a broom. Why?

Tyler D Parry

The trouble with love and sex | Aeon
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Love and friendship

‘What does sex mean to you?’ A fly-on-the-wall view of relationship counselling

50 minutes