Charlotte Hastings is a psychodynamic counsellor trained in systemic family therapy, with a background in anthropology, teaching and parenting. She presents the podcast Kitchen Sessions, teaches ...

It’s not just youth’s happy memories that have a special weight Mixed in with the highly memorable rites of growing up are more troubling highlights. But these, too, can have enduring value by ...

Though relationships are grounded in shared memories, some gaps and inaccuracies can help us live well in a social world ...

Research with transgender people sheds light on the memory processes that allow any of us to navigate periods of change ...

Scenes from books, movies and games sometimes carry as much weight as events from people’s own lives. We’re finding out why ...

Psychologists have known about the ‘halo effect’ for ages. New research suggests the power of language can help explain it The halo effect isn’t confined to human traits, either. This cognitive ...

Incorporating ancient African wisdom into wellbeing interventions could push positive psychology beyond its Western roots ...

Sometimes, when I’m grappling with a tricky topic, I pretend that I need to explain it to a child. For example, here is my attempt at explaining the purpose of this Guide to a notional nine-year-old: ...

is a clinical psychologist based in Philadelphia, US. Her poetry, essays and feature articles have been published by The New ...

A brain glitch? Quantum entanglement? Here are some of the best and oddest explanations for déjà vu we have from science ...

More people than ever are going solo. We identified a gender difference that hints at the ingredients needed to enjoy it ...

At first, I thought it was a coat in the water – a big black coat puffed up with air, floating down the Seine in the early ...