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A key to mental health is feeling connected to your true sense of self. When things start to go astray, a new paper suggests three ways to find your way back to who you truly are.

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A team of UChicago psychology researchers used fMRI scans to learn why certain moments carry such lasting power ...

The psychology behind our surprising tolerance for deception is that we feel good about some lies, we avoid confrontation, and, in our families, lies were structural.

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Scientists have engineered a protein able to record the incoming chemical signals of brain cells (as opposed to just their ...

Depression arises not only from direct stress exposure but also from complex disruptions in emotional processing, internal state regulation, and socially ...