A meta-analysis of 75 longitudinal studies found loneliness stays essentially flat from adolescence to old age, which means the midlife version people describe in...
Understanding Loneliness and Solitude in Midlife: A Closer Look at the Data
People often report arriving, somewhere around their forties, at a distinction between being...
An engineer in a Coventry lab traced a colleague’s sense of being watched and a vibrating fencing sword to a fan producing a 19...
Understanding the Reputation of “Haunted” Buildings
Buildings often develop reputations for being haunted, marked by reports of cold spots, feelings of being watched, or fleeting...
The men who consume the most information — podcasts queued, newsletters unread, tabs left open for weeks — are often the ones who have...
Information Overload and the Illusion of Being Informed
I know a guy with eleven podcast episodes queued, forty-something newsletters sitting unread, and a browser with...
We treat happiness as one thing, a good mood to maximise, but psychologists find it splits in two: the pleasant feeling of getting what...
Understanding Happiness: More Than Just One Feeling
We often think of happiness as a single dial—something we can turn up or down depending on how...
Is all that scrolling really dulling your attention? Researchers combed 71 studies — the link is real, but how compulsively you scroll matters more...
The Real Impact of Short-Form Video on Attention and Mental Health
You open the app to check one thing. Forty minutes later, you surface, slightly...