Andrei A Buckareff is professor of philosophy and co-director of the cognitive science programme at Marist College in New York. His works include Causing Human Actions: New Perspectives on the Causal ...

The contemporary obsession with feeling good might mean we’re losing sight of what makes life genuinely meaningful ...

Yet another important factor to consider in memories for fiction is believability. This is distinct from ‘ontological intuitiveness’ (our sense that dragons are not real or that humans cannot fly). It ...

We think of tears as an overflow of emotion, but an evolutionary lens shows they’re a rational form of social signalling ...

Intrusive thoughts about doing bad things are common, but for people with OCD they provoke deep fears about the self ...

Ecstatic moves, magic moments – this animated short documentary details one basketball fan’s love of the arena’s big screen ...

Formality: roughly, how formal and public a relationship is vs informal and private; Exchange: how much it involves trading ...

Something curious happens in two people’s brains during supportive interactions. It could help explain their emotional power ...

After fleeing war-torn Liberia, an outsider artist creates haunting portraits while seeking asylum in the Netherlands ...

Far more than an evolutionary imperative, caregiving is a gateway to our deepest humanity, and may explain our intelligence ...

The diplomatic intervention by a philosopher on a president shows the extraordinary consequences of unlikely meetings ...