Books & arts
30 October 2025
Political dejection creates disengaged citizens, says a new synthesis of psychology, sociology and political science
Essays & reportage
15 October 2025
A visit to Australia helps unlock a mystery
Books & arts
8 September 2025
A Nordic writer foregrounds the social and political causes of loneliness
Books & arts
30 July 2025
A firsthand account of the emergence and deepening of a gender-fixated worldview
Books & arts
28 March 2025
Can “tribal impulses” really be harnessed for the greater good?
Books & arts
11 March 2025
Is not knowing sometimes more rational than knowing?
Books & arts
4 October 2024
A new account of Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial focuses on the victims of an unfathomed perpetrator
Books & arts
13 September 2024
The rise and fall of an experiment in self-directed learning
Books & arts
28 August 2024
A compelling exploration of mental distress moves beyond psychiatric categories
Essays & reportage
8 August 2024
The military hierarchy took a dim view of aircrew traumatised by their experiences over Nazi Germany
Books & arts
5 June 2024
What can the psychology of this powerful emotion reveal about political life?
Books & arts
18 March 2024
Jonathan Haidt probes the causes of young people’s mental distress with refreshing humility
Books & arts
13 March 2024
Writer Adele Dumont charts trichotillomania — compulsive hair-pulling — from the inside out
Books & arts
18 January 2024
A German writer’s candid account of the shifting boundary between solitude and loneliness
Books & arts
19 October 2023
A writer and activist explores the changing seasons of grief
Books & arts
11 September 2023
When does a type become a disorder?
Books & arts
25 July 2023
How best to deal with dark moods?
Books & arts
15 June 2023
Do positive expectations and a sense of personal control add up to a unique predictor of wellbeing?
Books & arts
16 May 2023
What happened when a diplomat teamed up with Sigmund Freud to analyse the president?
Books & arts
23 March 2023
A tight network of interpersonal connections is both a buffer and a blanket
National affairs
22 February 2023
In a remarkable turnaround, the TGA has eased restrictions on the therapeutic use of psilocybin and MDMA. But will the benefits be fairly spread?
Books & arts
16 February 2023
Is the workplace malaise bigger than two organisational psychologists believe?
Books & arts
6 February 2023
How best should we cope with our awareness of death — and a desire to control when it happens?
Books & arts
3 February 2023
What impact do biographies of living politicians have on their subjects?
Books & arts
16 September 2022
Is it any surprise that we cling to old rituals and invent new ones?
Books & arts
4 September 2022
A prince and a psychologist detect more of the Good Samaritan in humans than we might imagine
Books & arts
3 September 2021
An American take on the benefits of talking to strangers has a message for Australians
Books & arts
23 August 2021
“We should be civil with those we don’t know, and aim to know them well enough that we can be uncivil,” argues a new book
Essays & reportage
2 August 2021
When and why did friendship slide down our hierarchy of relationships?
From the archive
30 July 2021
We might not be able to change who we are, but we can certainly change what we do