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
A biographer explores the impact of biographies of living politicians
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
Books & Arts
15 June 2021
A characteristically elliptical new book from the famed British psychotherapist Adam Phillips
Essays & Reportage
10 May 2021
With the pandemic under control, Australian researchers have resumed their quest for a psychedelic approach to mental health
Books & Arts
4 May 2021
How overhyped findings undermined psychology’s authority
Essays & Reportage
18 August 2020
Harry and Meghan’s new home comes with a history of American aristocrats, primate research and the quest for the contraceptive pill
Books & Arts
27 May 2020
Books | If we were smarter, would we realise we’re better than we think?
Books & Arts
30 April 2020
Books | Should we embrace boredom?
Books & Arts
23 October 2019
Books | There are reasons why Claire Weekes didn’t receive professional recognition, but they don’t take away from her achievement
Books & Arts
7 June 2019
Books | Conservative commentator David Brooks mightn’t be writing for everyone, but he’s traversing important terrain
Books & Arts
14 March 2019
Books | What makes political leaders take their country to war?
Books & Arts
21 October 2018
Books | Is the heightened tension on American campuses evidence of more psychologically vulnerable students?
Books & Arts
8 October 2018
Books | What explains the curious persistence of the Myers–Briggs personality test?
Essays & Reportage
16 August 2018
What happens when you meet the person you’ve done battle with online?
Books & Arts
3 July 2017
Books | When does consciousness end and unconsciousness begin?
Books & Arts
27 February 2017
Books | Our experience of time has a lot to do with how we balance past, present and future
Books & Arts
9 January 2015
Books | We need to change, yet we resist. Sara Dowse reviews Vincent Deary’s compelling account of the psychological how and why
Books & Arts
13 November 2014
A diplomat and a psychologist have produced a remarkable guide to dealing with intransigent conflicts, writes Graeme Dobell
Books & Arts
18 February 2013
A new book explores why wars can continue well beyond the point where they seem to have served any purpose, writes Tom Bamforth
Books & Arts
1 December 2012
There’s still a lot we don’t know about sleep, writes Sally Ferguson
Books & Arts
27 April 2012
If we are the sum of our memories, then how should we go about creating them, asks Richard Johnstone
Books & Arts
10 April 2012
Are we so impressed by the power of collaboration that we’ve come to overvalue working in groups, asks Jock Given