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We all intuitively think of ourselves as independent creatures with strong free will. However, many disturbing experiments about fashion, conformity, obedience, environment, choice and opinions have been troubling this idea we make of ourselves. These ought to be lessons of humility for all of us.

The results of a recent study show that this stress can lead to alterations in the brain and may have implications for the way we view individual choices regarding gender.

Sexual addiction is a controversial pathology. Numerous celebrities, tainted by sex scandals, have declared themselves sex addicts to justify their behaviors. Between 3 and 6% of the French population appears to be affected by this disorder.

Compassion is a feeling of sympathy for another individual in distress. The development of this behavior, considered essential for humans to coexist, is still little known. For this reason, two teams of Japanese researchers took an interest in it.

A discussion on impostor syndrome—the phenomenon of feeling like a fraud, despite all evidence to the contrary—seemed to strike a chord with many at the recent ScienceOnline conference. Social psychology has some ideas for combatting this supremely unhelpful complex. #scio13: the self-doubt vaccine.

Magic tricks can draw on dexterity, science, technique or even psychology. Here, we offer you the chance to travel back in time, to the beginning of the 20th century, and to reveal to you a few tricks of the period.

If you asked me how being a single parent has affected my economic prospects I would have to say for the worse…and for the best.

Exercise clears the mind. It gets the blood pumping and more oxygen is delivered to the brain.

The social pain of loneliness produces changes in the body that mimic the aging process and increase the risk of heart disease, according to a new study.

Low doses of a commonly used atypical antipsychotic drug improved survival in a mouse model of anorexia nervosa, researchers have recently reported. The result offers promise for a common and occasionally fatal eating disorder that currently lacks approved drugs for treatment.