The big idea: should you blame yourself for your bad habits?
Our ability to resist temptation is increasingly shaped by forces beyond our control
‘Ageing isn’t inevitable’: The 100-Year-Life co-author on how to live well for longer
Andrew Scott says we can stop one of humanity’s biggest achievements turning into a dystopian near-future
Wendy Mitchell obituary
Writer and dementia campaigner who believed that people should have the right to choose their own death
The big idea: this simple behavioural trick can help you get more out of life
Habituation is a key component of human nature, and knowing how to manipulate it can make the things you enjoy even better
I felt lost in early adulthood, so coined the term ‘quarterlife’ as a focus for study
Adrift after leaving university, Satya Doyle Byock turned to psychology to bridge the journey to adulthood
The big idea: is compassion fatigue real?
Can we really maintain our levels of empathy in the face of an increasingly brutal news cycle?
‘Gloom is good’: after my wife died I found solace in poetry and music
You can’t fight death, sickness, ageing and life’s various indignities, but you can play very loud rock’n’roll
How We Break by Vincent Deary review – look after yourself
A psychologist offers practical advice for dealing with life’s ups and downs
‘A shop can be your castle’: the surprising rewards of retail work
Working in retail can be dispiriting, but when the author Madeleine Gray took a job in a bookshop in her native Australia, she learned more about human kindness than she ever thought possible
‘There is joy, and there is rage’: the new generation of novelists writing about motherhood
From the shock and awe of labour to domestic isolation, a wave of recent novels captures the transformative nature of being a mother