Hyper-vigilance isn’t a personality trait — it’s a stress response first documented in combat veterans, and researchers later found the same scanning-for-danger reflex in...
The Origins and Understanding of Hypervigilance
In 1941, psychiatrist Abram Kardiner published The Traumatic Neuroses of War, a pioneering clinical study examining American soldiers returning...
People who find it physically uncomfortable to look someone in the eye during a compliment aren’t insecure or evasive — they’re often the ones...
Understanding the Subtle Art of Receiving Compliments
The last time I paid someone a proper compliment, they looked at the floor like I’d dropped a...
Retirees who move overseas often report being happy with their new lives while also feeling lonelier — because paradise cannot automatically replace the relationships...
Retirement Moves: Balancing Happiness and Loneliness Abroad
A retirement move often fulfills many common reasons for relocating: a less expensive home, kinder weather, and a...
When psychologists asked people to log what they were doing hour by hour, roughly 43 percent of daily behaviour turned out to be habit...
The Habitual Mind: When Life Runs on Autopilot
Psychologist Wendy Wood’s groundbreaking study revealed a startling insight into how much of our daily lives are...
Tardigrades can survive being boiled, frozen to near absolute zero, blasted with radiation, and shot into the vacuum of space, and they do it...
The Extraordinary Survival of Tardigrades
A tardigrade dropped into liquid nitrogen at minus 272 degrees Celsius, boiled at 150 degrees, exposed to the vacuum of...