Humans are the only animals who crave oblivion through suicide

Nicholas Humphrey

Psychopaths have feelings: can they learn how to use them?

Arielle Baskin-Sommers

Laughing at others’ misfortune is fine for ‘fail’ videos. It’s poison for politics

6 minutes

Harlem’s over-55s synchronised swimming team thinks ageing is better in the pool

4 minutes

Will they or won’t they? Prospective jumpers anguish at the edge of the high dive

16 minutes

Why is the brain prone to florid forms of confabulation?

Jules Montague

Meeting your boyfriend’s family is hard. Agata must travel 3,000 miles. And she’s blind

13 minutes

Five-month-old babies know what’s funny

Gina Mireault

Why the ‘exotic and strange’ world of childhood is ripe for horror

5 minutes

Reason might be our puppet master but only after emotions tug on the strings

3 minutes

How the fear of death makes people more Right-wing

Bobby Azarian

How the sounds of solitary confinement might be worse than the isolation

3 minutes

Athletes endure a bizarre, nearly impossible 100-mile race for its sheer thrill

23 minutes

A theory of creepiness

A bear chasing you is simply scary but a guy with a big mouse’s head can give you the creeps. What’s the difference?

David Livingstone Smith

Do only humans have souls, or do animals possess them too?

Michael Jawer

Can any of these four men shed tears on command? The psychology of the ‘guy cry’

4 minutes

Liberal academics are ‘open’ but are they truly tolerant?

Mark Brandt

Kindness as self-defence – the power of ‘non-complementary behaviour’

8 minutes

My spotless mind

Imagine purging life’s disturbing events. If you could alter or mute your worst memories would you still remain yourself?

Lauren Gravitz

Exercising together boosts performance and forges friendships

Jacob Taylor, Emma Cohen & Arran Davis

Music might be quintessentially human, but does it serve a purpose?

4 minutes

Sex, drugs and late nights: on night owls and psychopaths

Minna Lyons

Only the lonely

Loneliness is hell: debilitating yet formative. Can we avoid the pains of loneliness yet enjoy the pleasures of solitude?

Cody Delistraty

The true meaning of the match is clearest on the face of the diehard fan

5 minutes