Video/Love & Friendship An 11-year-old girl on what to do when a boy likes you, but you like someone else 2 minutes
Video/Family Life ‘From Paris, your mom’: the aching yearning of those exiled from family back in East Asia 13 minutes
Essay/Neuroscience The kindled brain If each bout of depression, bipolar disorder or PTSD makes another more likely, should sufferers stay on medication for life? Elizabeth Svoboda
Essay/Human Evolution Imagination is ancient Our imaginative life today has access to the pre-linguistic, ancestral mind: rich in imagery, emotions and associations Stephen T Asma
Video/Social Psychology Laughing at others’ misfortune is fine for ‘fail’ videos. It’s poison for politics 6 minutes
Video/Life Stages Harlem’s over-55s synchronised swimming team thinks ageing is better in the pool 4 minutes
Video/Mood & Emotion Will they or won’t they? Prospective jumpers anguish at the edge of the high dive 16 minutes
Classic /Meaning & the Good Life CLASSIC On the happy life Lucius Annaeus Seneca Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 64 CE With a new introduction and commentary by Massimo Pigliucci
EXCLUSIVE Video/Love & Friendship Meeting your boyfriend’s family is hard. Agata must travel 3,000 miles. And she’s blind 13 minutes
Video/Human Evolution Why do fear, cold and sublime feelings all provoke the same response in our skin? 3 minutes
Video/Childhood & Adolescence Why the ‘exotic and strange’ world of childhood is ripe for horror 5 minutes
Video/Mood & Emotion Reason might be our puppet master but only after emotions tug on the strings 3 minutes
Essay/Ethics Honestly, it’s fine! Tight-lipped, frosty and fake, the passive-aggressive person never quite takes the blame. Is this always a bad thing? Rebecca Roache
Video/Mood & Emotion How the sounds of solitary confinement might be worse than the isolation 3 minutes
Video/Self-Improvement Athletes endure a bizarre, nearly impossible 100-mile race for its sheer thrill 23 minutes
Video/Sports & Games Life as a young referee: you get berated on the pitch; at home, mother does it too 17 minutes
Essay/Mood & Emotion 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
Video/Mood & Emotion Can any of these four men shed tears on command? The psychology of the ‘guy cry’ 4 minutes
Essay/Food & Drink Hot stuff Pepperheads love the hit of a habanero, the kick of a bhut jolokia. But what’s the allure of a fruit designed to repel? Kendra Pierre-Louis
Essay/Neuroscience 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
Idea/Social Psychology Exercising together boosts performance and forges friendships Jacob Taylor, Emma Cohen & Arran Davis