Psychology

Why discovering your ancestral roots can help you to truly feel like yourself

There’s a photo somewhere – taken to preserve history – of me swabbing my inner cheek with a cotton stick, ready for DNA testing to find my roots. Two...

Bad buffet behaviour is out of control. So should we be fined for our food waste? | Emma Beddington

Should you be penalised for having eyes bigger than your belly? A Cornish pub is trying it out:...

Do you dream of becoming one with your partner? The deep-sea anglerfish shows how badly that can end

I have just discovered how the deep-sea anglerfish mates. My apologies if this is old ichthyological news to...

‘Anger is blinding’: family therapists on how to resolve sibling feuds

For most of the 1990s and 2000s, the Gallagher brothers clashed on stage and traded high-profile insults in...

Do you really want a divorce? Or are you just ‘getting divorcey’?

A friend of mine has a useful phrase to describe an experience I think many of us can...

I love Springsteen and my daughter is a huge Swiftie – and that’s created a bridge between us

It is a cloudy Saturday evening in Edinburgh in early June and I am in a rugby stadium surrounded by young women who are...