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Unquestioned community rules on marriage, dining and even black cats often stem from our hunger to explain random events ...

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For a woman who never fit the mould, living on a remote island was easy. Starting over afterwards was a bigger challenge ...

is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.

A lifetime of pleasure and pain, beauty and misery, collapsed into a single scene in this sprawling animated artwork ...

is a cartographer and writer living and working in Minneapolis.

is an associate professor of behavioural science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, US.

Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon Media that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts.