Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon Media that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts.

is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Alberta, Canada.

In our age of certainty and dogma, we would all do well to learn from the philosophy of the ancient Greco-Roman sceptics We live in a paradoxical time: despite the proliferation of critical thinking ...

is a senior lecturer in political theory at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has written two books about pragmatism, and is writing one on Ralph Waldo Emerson and another on psychoanalysis.

Whether an act seems ‘good’ depends on how you look at it. Brain research reveals what happens when the lens changes ...

You mustn’t assume that the skills that served you well in the past will be enough for any new challenges that lie ahead ...

Clinicians have long recognised the link between worry and planning. New research asks what this means for managing anxiety ...

A tender look at five mothers facing formidable hardships, who set out to break the cycles of addiction, poverty and neglect ...

The long-term benefits of regular exercise for mood are well-known. What’s surprising is that just one session can help ...

Forgiveness is colloquially linked with fading memory – but research is probing what it really means to let go of wrongdoing ...

Forgetting things can be frustrating, even frightening. The ancient Greeks certainly thought so. But Daoism offers a ...