Can an Organ Transplant Can Change Your Personality?

Changes in personality following a heart transplant have been noted pretty much ever since transplants began. In one case, a person who hated classical ...

Relax - They Aren’t Thinking About You

In a recent article in The Guardian, Oliver Burkeman describes how to be liberated from people-pleasing:

“Great news! I found the cure for my anxiety!!” ...

The Good Book for Baby Names

The influence of Christianity has declined in the United States. Yet in maternity wards across the country, when newborns scrunch up their tiny faces ...

Lottery Winner Vows to Continue Working

20-year-old James Clarkson works as a gas engineer trainee in North England, and has no plans of stopping. Of course, it would be unusual for any person ...

Opting Out of the ‘Preschool Pressure Cooker’

An interesting article in The Wall Street Journal noted that "we are living through a particularly anxious moment in the history of American parenting." ...

Homeless Man's Honesty Prompts Lavish Charity

When Sarah Darling dropped some change into a homeless man's cup, she didn't notice anything amiss. But she quickly realized that her diamond ...

Stop Watching Mean People in Videos

Here's the conclusion from a study published in the journal Aggressive Behavior: Watching TV programs about mean people can make you a mean person. ...

What Life Events Change Your Personality?

Over time, your personality can change — in big ways. But psychologists didn’t always think this to be true. While one’s personality ...

How Rembrandt Revised Portrayals of Jesus

What did Jesus really look like? Western art has frequently stumbled over the contradiction between the ascetic figure of Jesus of Nazareth and the iconography ...

Adversity Made Ancient Societies More Resilient

From the Roman Empire to the Maya civilization, history is filled with social collapses. Traditionally, historians have studied these downturns qualitatively, ...