A selection of science-based books from the year that together shine new light on who we are and why we think and act as we do.

A host of new science books are due to hit shelves in January, by authors including Claudia Hammond, Deborah Cohen and Daisy ...

From Freud to Kahneman, these ten books map the ideas that quietly shape how we interpret behaviour, suffering, joy, and choice. Written by psychologists who transformed their fields, each work ...

Looking to start next year with a fresh outlook and some new tools for happiness and calm? These positive psychology books ...

Cultural shifts in 2025 shaped psychology and self-help books that centred confidence, emotional clarity and practical ...

Psychological science is really just our best shot at making sense of how people think, feel, and act. It’s rooted in old philosophy but runs today on experiments, observation, and data. Back in the ...

If one is a psychologist or even has a passing interest in the field, one has likely encountered the question about whether psychology is truly a science or not. The debate has been prominent since ...

Psychology: Since psychology uses the scientific method to methodically examine the observable behaviors and responses of both humans and animals, it is essentially recognized as the study of behavior ...

I have a new book coming out in June, and New Scientist is to blame. Back in the summer of 2020, I wrote this column about a study led by computational social scientist Meysam Alizadeh, who worked to ...