Susan Cain: ‘Society has a cultural bias towards extroverts’
Bestselling author Susan Cain tells Ian Tucker about on the cultural dominance of extroverts
Happy adolescents ‘likely to have higher income’ as adults
Research finds link between upbeat personalities and earnings
The truth about depression: six people speak out
It is an illness that can affect anyone, and prescriptions for antidepressants are soaring, yet depression is still badly misunderstood. Here, six people talk candidly about how it changed their lives
This column will change your life: asked a tricky question? Answer an easier one
We all do it, all the time. So how can we get rid of this eccentricity, asks Oliver Burkeman
Why anti-choice campaigners won’t let science get in their way
Amanda Marcotte: Research claiming a link between abortion and mental illness in women always gets debunked, but do these ideologues care?
Global experiment probes the deceptions of human memory
Preliminary results are in from a huge online experiment designed to test a flaw in the way the brain stores memories
Older mothers may be more prone to depression than younger women
Preliminary study suggests risk of depression is five times as high among women who have children later in life
Childhood abuse may stunt growth of part of brain involved in emotions
Three key areas of the hippocampus in the brain were smaller in people who reported maltreatment in childhood
Why willpower matters – and how to get it
Willpower is a mental muscle that you can train. Those who do so are more likely to lead happy and successful lives