For a woman who never fit the mould, living on a remote island was easy. Starting over afterwards was a bigger challenge ...

Once maligned by philosophers, metaphors are a key communication tool for extending the power of literal speech ...

We used an electric-shock dilemma to test the strength of people’s moral principles when faced with real-world complexities ...

In the social media age, it seems impossible not to measure ourselves against others – but we can dodge the worst pitfalls ...

A lifetime of pleasure and pain, beauty and misery, collapsed into a single scene in this sprawling animated artwork ...

is a psychologist and personality researcher at Witten/Herdecke University in Germany. His work focuses on motivated (self-)perception, specifically examining individual differences in self-knowledge ...

Family lore smashes into reality in this clever, cutting short about a little girl’s take on her grandparents’ grand love ...

is a postdoctoral researcher in social psychology at the University of Basel in Switzerland, researching social interactions, ostracism, and social media processes.

is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and currently visiting professor at the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto in Canada. His latest book is ...

is a cartographer and writer living and working in Minneapolis.