Trauma survivors resist leaving bad situations they've mastered. Plato's cave reveals why: they've achieved wisdom about the ...

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Do we ever truly choose, or are we simply following scripts written by our brains and environments? These ten psychology books tackle the unsettling question of free will, blending neuroscience, ...

1. Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker Before Netflix made “Mindhunter” a binge-worthy hit, John Douglas was out there profiling the most dangerous ...

From everyday choices to life-altering mistakes, psychology explains why humans often act against reason. These ten books shine a light on fear, honesty, memory, authority, and the fragile wiring of ...

In Rise Above: Overcome a Victim Mindset, Empower Yourself, and Realize Your Full Potential (Penguin, 2025), psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman delivers a timely and incisive critique of what he calls ...

Men are from Mars and women are from Venus – so goes the title of the infamous pop psychology book. Our two sexes may not be quite as dissimilar as this, but in recent years, rigorous science has ...

Readers on TikTok and Instagram are making the aesthetics of reading more visible than ever with creative, and often intricate, annotations. Called marginalia, these markups can be elaborate, with ...