Psychology Today

Willem Dafoe on range, instinct, and why he doesn’t pull from his own life experiences to fuel a performance.

Pentagram graphic designer Paula Scher on why success kills creative work and failure is the engine of breakthrough.

Two years into her marriage, her husband told her he might be gay. The lonely years that followed shaped the storylines she’d write for Sex and the City.

Despite great success as a standup comedian and former host of Comedy Central’s Standup Nation, Greg Giraldo was tortured by a constant sense of failure.

Street criminals are selective about their victims. Unfortunately, many of us unwittingly give off signals that mark us as easy targets.

We live in the age of distraction. Yet one of life’s sharpest paradoxes is that your brightest future hinges on your ability to pay attention to the present.

Our choices in books, movies, music, and art go to the core of who we are. What your tastes reveal about you.

What happens when you hold a mirror up to seven comedians? Analyzing humor from the experts who make people laugh.

The last in-depth interview he gave, nine days before his death, recorded over the telephone on Friday, June 13, 2008.

The hidden risks of recreational Viagra.

The truth about couples and how to reignite the flame

How to stick to diet, exercise, or worse. Modern medicine can work wonders, but only when we actually use it.

A hundred years after Freud, one man may have figured out why we dream. You’ll never think the same way about nightmares again.

Scrutinizing the frontrunners. Word for word, the presidential candidates revealed.

Cinnamon Stillwell never thought she’d be the founder of a political organization. She certainly never expected to start a group for conservatives, most of whom became conservatives on the same day—September 11, 2001. She organized the group, the 911 Neocons, as a haven for people like her—“former lefties” who did…