Social Science

Interoception—the brain’s ability to sense internal bodily signals like heartbeat and breathing—is often portrayed as a key “brain–body bridge” to...

A new theory study in The Annals of Family Medicine reframes the everyday friction between social care and clinical medicine...

In today’s polarized political climate, people may judge moderates as untrustworthy whenever opposing groups appear threatening, according to new research...

A Dartmouth team has released KinyaProp, the first digital tool designed to identify and classify online propaganda in Kinyarwanda, Rwanda’s...

A new study published in Nature Mental Health argues that how we assess mental health risk depends critically on one...

Inequality rarely stays static. Instead, it often amplifies itself through a feedback loop: when disparities become normalized, political demand for...

Nearly one-quarter of U.S. adolescents reported using mobile food delivery during school hours, while almost half said they use it...

In many societies, the dead were not treated as something to be left behind. Instead, burial could be integrated into...

Depression often involves more than sadness—it can trap the brain in loops of repeated thought. A new study in Nature...

A growing body of neuroscience is challenging a long-held assumption about late-life depression—that it is mainly the downstream result of...