The difference between a brief flirtation and an all-consuming love affair is one of interest. Put a different way: the thing ...

From traits like extraversion to specific habits, there are many ways a couple can match. New research tests whether it helps ...

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Molly Williamson is an associate production editor at Aeon+Psyche. She lives in London.

I’m in a Zoom meeting, speaking to a screen full of black squares, trying to coax voices out of the void. The other callers are all members of an executive board, and they’re in turmoil over the ...

Practising Carl Rogers’s unconditional positive regard helps me be more compassionate and less judgmental – of myself too ...

More people than ever are going solo. We identified a gender difference that hints at the ingredients needed to enjoy it ‘You’ll be single for the rest of your life’ is the sort of foreboding comment ...

Does the blank page look unconquerable? Blackout poetry can give you a creative jumpstart. This short video explains how ...

The Seattle-based artist Mindie Lind grew up ‘obsessed with the stage’, and today has a prominent voice in the Pacific Northwest as a musician and writer on disability and beyond. However, as she ...

Elaine Hoan is a PhD student at the University of Toronto studying singlehood and wellbeing. She examines how individual characteristics, such as personality and gender, as well as broader factors – ...

Roman Krznaric is a social philosopher and author of History for Tomorrow: Inspiration from the Past for the Future of Humanity (forthcoming, July 2024). He is senior research fellow at Oxford ...