The cult of Michaela Kell might seem funny but it involves dark psychological manipulation, like any other.

A social psychologist recommends ways to connect with others as you move through public spaces – with benefits for your own well-being as well as for the social fabric of your community.

By tying together more than a century of memory research at Cambridge, the Memory Lab gives us tangible ways to improve, preserve and understand our memory.

MIT researchers lay out design principles behind the TeleAbsence vision, how it could help people cope with loss and plan for how they might be remembered.

We love to believe we’re rational thinkers, but we’re often guided by invisible hands.

An object’s color appears differently under different lighting and against different backgrounds − for different viewers. But that doesn’t mean colors are subjective.

And why people form alliances even with people they know are untrustworthy.

A psychologist explains how group identity, polarizing issues and social media are driving people apart – and suggests some remedies.