When walking through an unfamiliar city, we might rely on different types of directions. Head east out of the train station, take a left at the stop light, turn at the building with the mural.

To move through complex environments and keep track of where objects are, people use reference points either in relation to their own body (for example, ...

Anxiety-Symptom Severity and Implicit and Explicit Self-as-Anxious Associations in a Large Online Sample of U.S. Adults: Trends From 2011 to 2022Noah J. French, René Freichel, Sercan Kahveci, et al.

Some studies have sug...

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My friendships exist in silos. Each hangout is a feverish one-on-one where we share fries and eye contact, confessions, rants, gossip, and mutual attempts at amateur therapy. This patchwork of get-togethers structures my week: a Wednesday happy hour with one friend, a Saturday-morning walk-and-talk with another, a Sunday coffee date with a third. It’s exhilarating—we genuinel...

Abigail Marsh, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Georgetown University, studies extraordinary altruism — people who jump in to rescue strangers in emergencies or donate a kidney to someone they don’t know. Marsh spoke with Cristina Quinn, host of The Washington Post’s podcast “Try ...