CHRIS PALEY'S WEIRD MINDS

Love him or loathe him, Trump certainly loves himself. And he’s got a lot of love to give. Putin’s press pics – hunting, fishing, riding...

There’s something repulsive about loved-up couples pawing at each other, tongues a-thrusting, eyes a-goggle. Their happiness is too much...

Psychologists puzzle over art in general. For some genres, they can give glib (and almost certainly wrong) defences. Maybe we like pretty...

Nudging has had a lot of good press. If benevolent powers know a little about how your mind works, they can gently push you towards what...

When you stub your toe, where does it hurt? In your foot, or in your head? You certainly locate the pain in your foot; you don’t mistake...

The only technique that has ever been successful in explaining the world around us is experimentation. Scientists drop things, pass...

A friend asked me recently, ‘Why are there no good men anymore?’ I think she was talking about men in general rather than me...

What people say they'd do isn't always what they would do, especially when there's money at stake. Once upon a time, aspiring traders...

We make our decisions about romantic partners for reasons that we may not be aware of. Yet once we’ve fallen for someone our pulses...

The bespectacled, lab-coat wearing geek isn’t most people’s idea of a hot date. But, with nothing better to do on a Friday evening, and...

Do you realise that you hear with your eyes as well as your ears? In this video, you'll see and hear it for yourself!

Understanding self-control is perhaps the most important thing that a psychologist can do. People with it are healthier, get better...

From each set of five words below, make a grammatically-correct four-word sentence. For example, from the list good cat she very was you...

Homoeopathists have had a bad time of it recently. Other bloggers have pointed out that there is nothing in the tablets that their...

Philip Larkin's poem, This Be The Verse, begins: They [mess]* you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you...

The stereotypical liberal is a beard-wearing, sandal-sporting, yoghurt-eating wimp. The hawkish conservative is made of sterner stuff. ...

In the protracted build up to a possible May poll, leaders of the main parties are fighting to set the agenda, attempting to focus the...

The process of turning scientific breakthroughs into business initiatives is a central part of the debate on science funding. One...

An immensely important piece of work. When we think we're deciding something, doing something or saying something, we infer from our...