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Are you wondering if you are smart enough or if you belong at your university? It may not be impostor syndrome. Your university may be impostorizing you.

Your partner just revealed a fetish. Before you panic, here’s what decades of research says about arousal, honesty, and keeping a relationship strong.

Everything you’ve learned about sex from the movies is wrong. Science tells us that good sex is about getting creative, and managing your “sexpectations.”

One clever political trick is to convince people you accept an appealing principle and then act in direct violation of that principle. That way, you gain the rhetorical benefit of espousing a principle while gaining the practical benefit of breaking it. One of the holiest principles of American conservatives is the free market. It is…

Sitting atop a Spanish mesa one sweltering August night, watching the Perseid meteor showers streak the sky with the debris of a comet burning through the atmosphere against the backdrop of a billion dead stars whose signal light is only now reaching us, I found myself trembling with the parallel to life itself: The great…

An existential lesson gleaned from a brush with death and foolishness. “Compassion,” Karen Armstrong wrote in her stirring meditation on the true meaning of the Golden Rule, “asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.” But…

Are arranged marriages loving? Many Westerners might express doubts. But a recent study shows that arranged marriages can be as loving as free-choice marriages.

We mock a compulsive liar when they are exposed without understanding their vulnerability.