The most precious gifts in our lives, and consequently the things we happen to take for granted the most, are our senses: our vision, hearing, touch, taste, and smell – the building blocks of how we perceive and understand our world. I discovered two short and amazing videos that illustrate just how special our senses [...]

If there is one thing that is consistent throughout our lives, it’s that things are always changing. This is especially true for our relationships. Try looking back on your life right now and remember all of the people whom you used to be close to but have since faded away from. Maybe you had a [...]

I’ve been studying psychology and self-improvement for a long time now. A lot of my research includes getting into the minds of happy and successful people (by asking questions and observing their behavior), and then trying to determine what it is that makes them the way they are. One thing I’ve noticed about almost every [...]

Why do we like watching movies that make us feel depressed? This is a question that has long interested psychologists and philosophers, and a recent study published by Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick at Ohio State University may have an answer. Her research is one of the first attempts to take a scientific approach to explaining why people [...]