Psychology
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Adults who feel uncomfortable when things are going well often aren’t self-sabotaging — they may have…
Therapists have reported noticing a pattern in adult clients that didn't fit the usual scripts.
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Psychology
What’s really driving the way people speak, react, and respond.
Psychology
The hardest part of ageing parents growing frail often isn’t the caregiving…
The common wisdom about caring for aging parents runs like this: the exhausting part is the logistics.
Psychology
People who felt responsible for their parents’ emotions as children often grow…
The child who seems unusually good at reading adults is not necessarily simply mature.
Psychology
One reason long marriages quietly unravel in the empty-nest years has less to do with…
A marriage can contain years of conversation and still leave two people surprisingly out of practice at talking about themselves.
Psychology
Adults who prefer texting to phone calls often aren’t avoiding intimacy — they…
The range was almost comic — some couples barely texted at all, others let messaging carry the vast majority of their contact.
Psychology
People who overexplain themselves in emails aren’t being thorough — they may be…
Some work emails are much longer than the task requires.
Psychology
Adults who describe their childhood as ‘fine’ often aren’t in denial…
Someone asks about childhood and the answer comes back before the question fully lands: fine.
Psychology
There’s a difference between loving animals and preferring them to people — one…
The dog gets soft eyes, a smile, a story about the way he tilts his head when the kettle boils.
Psychology
The engineers who get promoted fastest rarely log the most hours — they write the…
For most of the productivity era, the advice from the corner office was consistent: hire the striver.
Psychology
The average American worker leaves roughly $3,000 in vacation days unused each year…
The countdown to vacation has become a substitute for a life.