From empty glasses of sherry on the mantelpiece to sooty footprints leading to the bedroom door, evidence of Santa’s existence is clearly irrefutable. Yet most…
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The silent treatment: ‘One woman was ostracised by her husband for 40 years’
Laura, a 43-year-old architect, had always had a tricky relationship with her younger sister, Carla. However, things hit a low point when Carla was setting…
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Creative types – musicians, painters, writers – are often regarded as a tormented and difficult bunch but a study has revealed that at least one…
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They say you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. But when it comes to tackling a tricky task, researchers have found that getting angry…
View More Anger can lead to better results when tackling tricky tasks – study‘Social loafing’ found when working alongside robots
People tend to pay less attention to tasks when working alongside a robot, according to research that found evidence of “social loafing” – where team…
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In 2018 the World Health Organization formally included gaming disorder in its diagnostic manual for the first time. Nearly four years into running the only…
View More Inside the UK’s first gaming disorder clinic – podcast‘Hardcore science’ or ‘just a sticker’ – do anti-anxiety patches actually work?
This month, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, was photographed wearing a “biosignal processing disc” affixed on her left wrist. The product, sold by a company…
View More ‘Hardcore science’ or ‘just a sticker’ – do anti-anxiety patches actually work?Anger is most powerful emotion by far for spurring climate action, study finds
Anger is by far the most powerful emotional predictor of whether somebody plans to take part in a climate protest, research suggests. The study, which…
View More Anger is most powerful emotion by far for spurring climate action, study findsIs the therapeutic potential of hallucinogens risky and overhyped?
In June 2021, 32-year-old actor Kate Hyatt travelled to a farmhouse near Great Malvern in Worcerstershire for a plant medicine retreat that she hoped would…
View More Is the therapeutic potential of hallucinogens risky and overhyped?The pleasure principle: is a little bit of indulgence the secret to success?
We may live in a largely secular society, but the Protestant work ethic is still alive and strong. The “lazy” and “entitled” millennials, we have…
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