The brain doesn't just want what it enjoys. It wants things for the sake of it.

Scholars and philosophers have always been interested in what makes for a good life, but the scientific study of happiness took off in the late 1990s with a new field called positive psychology.

An evaluation of the University counselling service (UCS) by academics in the School of Psychology has found that remote therapy, introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic, produced outcomes comparable ...

Psychology is at work all around us, in surprising places, having a real impact that changes lives. Here, we curate a collection of articles and interviews from The Psychologist around that theme… ...