Video/ Childhood & Adolescence A child demands calm from a chaotic world in a beguiling, haunting poem 1 minute
Essay/ Mental Health The usefulness of dread My anxiety has been lifelong but I would not wish it away. It has made me the philosopher – and person – that I am today Samir Chopra
Video/ Consciousness & Altered States What happens when you start paying close attention to everyday sensory experience? 6 minutes
Video/ Childhood & Adolescence After nursing a bird back to health, a nine-year-old learns the delicate art of letting go 2 minutes
Idea/ Social Psychology Why collective narcissists are so politically volatile Agnieszka Golec de Zavala
Video/ Mood & Emotion The profound solitude of a winter spent alone on an island caring for an empty hotel 14 minutes
Video/ Childhood & Adolescence After his cat dies, an 11-year-old imagines a cycle of life and death that will reunite them 1 minute
Idea/ Neuroscience ‘Let the soul dangle’: how mind-wandering spurs creativity Julia Christensen, Guido Giglioni & Manos Tsakiris
Idea/ Mood & Emotion Porridge is funnier than oatmeal, and booby is funnier still Tomas Engelthaler & Thomas T Hills
Video/ Mood & Emotion The archetypal tough guy from London’s East End, or one man grappling with his emotions? 10 minutes
Essay/ Mood & Emotion Psychology’s power tools Cognitive behavioural therapy has created interventions that truly help people to change. Here are the best of them David A Sbarra
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
Idea/ Mental Health Psychopaths have feelings: can they learn how to use them? Arielle Baskin-Sommers
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
Idea/ Personality Pigs, parrots and people: the problem of animal personality Antone Martinho-Truswell
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