Recently, I holed up indoors with my family watching old sci fi movies, including The Puppet Masters, a story about alien blobs that sit on people's backs and wire themselves into human nervous ...

A new study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science challenges the conventional wisdom regarding the relationship between self-discipline and happiness. The findings suggest that ...

James Vicary, a self-promoting market researcher, jumped in to take credit for the "experiment". And a number of years later, an overwrought Wilson Bryan Key wrote Subliminal Seduction, in which he ...