When Helen Fisher scanned recently rejected college students at Stony Brook, the ventral tegmental area and nucleus accumbens fired the same way they do during cocaine cravings — mapping heartbreak onto the neural circuitry of a broken habit loop.
Watch how different people come out of the same setback and you notice it is not the wound that varies so much as what grows
There is a particular kind of quiet that shows up in people who have, by every visible measure, made it. The title, the house, the
Somewhere on the northern frontier of the Roman empire, between military campaigns he did not especially want to be fighting, Marcus Aurelius kept a notebook.
“Be happy with what you have” is the kind of advice that can sound like a dismissal, a way of telling someone to stop wanting
The common assumption about what women notice in older men leans heavily on appearance, gray hair, wrinkles, a changing physique, as though attraction were simply
Debt has become such a normal part of financial life, credit cards, car loans, student loans, mortgages, that it rarely gets treated as a health
By the mid-1990s, Joanne Rowling had moved back to Britain from Portugal, settled in Edinburgh, and was raising a young daughter as a single mother
Being one of the popular kids in middle school or early high school is usually treated as an unambiguous social win, the thing every teenager
The usual image of carrying something in silence is a performance problem: holding a straight face in a room full of people, biting back what’s
Somewhere in most long relationships, the version of desire that felt urgent and involuntary early on quiets down. It’s a common enough experience that it
We assume an older person’s fear of falling is a straightforward readout of a failing body. A year-long Australian study of five hundred people found something stranger: the fear runs partly on its own track, it predicts falls even in the physically steady, and the ones least worried were often the ones who fell least.
