For someone experiencing a panic attack, fear can become an all-consuming feedback loop, with a fit of anxiety quickly careening into a fear that they might lose control and faint, or even die. In ...

For a moment I thought I’d misheard him. The same clinical psychologist who’d given me that diagnosis a few years earlier was ...

Does society benefit more from freedom or control? A philosopher seeks answers from the father of radical behaviourism ...

Most of us have experienced both how good it can feel and how hard it can be to do the right thing. Helping strangers or supporting a friend can leave you with a deep sense of satisfaction at making a ...

For most people, experiencing just a few of these does not reflect an addiction to social media. However, the behaviour may still be problematic, in one or more of these ways, to the extent that it’s ...

What’s it like for a blind person to run a marathon? Living the punk ethos he was raised on, Phil is set on finding out ...

A criminal investigation is a complex, multifaceted problem-solving challenge. Detectives must make critical decisions rapidly – sometimes involving life and death, based on limited information in a ...

It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that ain’t so. – quotation from the 19th century, likely apocryphal The year was 1993 and, aged 16, I was ...

If you’re an overthinker, you’ll know exactly how it goes. A problem keeps popping up in your mind – for instance, a health worry or a dilemma at work – and you just can’t stop dwelling on it, as you ...

A trip to the telescopes of the Atacama Desert led me to research showing the benefits of feeling connected to the night sky ...

I envy voracious book readers. They seem worldly and wise. Also, whatever is happening in their lives, they’re never completely on their own – they always have their books. My mother is one of these ...