Two researchers navigate the mind-boggling and often sinister, parallel universe that is known as the digital afterlife industry and chatbots specifically designed to help people grieve.
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My study shows people can recall more detailed childhood memories if they ‘reinhabit’ the body they had as a child.
Humility doesn’t get the fanfare of virtues like courage, compassion or generosity. But without humility, those other virtues won’t get much traction in the quest to live a good life.
Psychologists know babies can form memories soon after birth. So why can’t people remember anything that happened to them before around age 2? A child development expert describes possible reasons.
Apple TV’s Severance imagines what would happen to our sense of self if we could completely separate our work and home lives.
Helen Garner is the pioneer of fearless self-revelation in Australian literature. Writer Sean O'Beirne examines his own literary fear and fearlessness: should he ‘give’ more, as Garner does?
It almost sounds like a paradox, but pairing with the right person can help you grow as an individual as you blend your interests with theirs and learn from their strengths.
Cognitive shortcuts help you efficiently move through a complicated world. But they come with an unwelcome side effect: Facts aren’t necessarily enough to change your mind.
How does the brain distinguish between the “self” and the “other”? A new study gives a clue.
Scientists have developed a robotic arm with knowledge of its physical form – a very basic sense of self.
If you develop an awareness of how you feel you are more likely to be able to change negative thinking patterns.
Few can resist an assessment that promises to reveal your hidden, true self. But new research suggests that people mistakenly believe difficult to answer questions offer deep insights.
Children start to demonstrate self-awareness as they approach their second birthday – and it helps them to learn.
Men and women experience autism differently, which shows something revealing about where autistic characteristics may come from.
It is generally thought that science helps good ideas triumph over bad. But one old and oft-refuted idea that questions why we are who we are, and do what we do, refuses to die.
Just where in the brain is our ‘ego’?
New technologies bring questions that have belonged to the abstract realm of philosophers into concrete focus. Why do medical interventions in the brain feel different than those elsewhere in the body?
Here are five scientific studies from the last 12 months with simple tips for raising healthy children.
The pursuit to get into the best colleges has taken out the joy of learning from students’ lives.
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