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Do you find yourself noticing faint sensations that no one else can perceive? Are you startled easily? And is your mood easily swayed by the feelings of the people around you? If so, you may be a highly sensitive person (HSP), a personality profile that is of increasing interest to both scientists and armchair psychologists. As an HSP myself, the trait is most obvious in my embarrassing squeamishness; at the merest hint of violence or pain on TV, I will reflexively cover my eyes with my hands. F...

Kanye West and Lorde say they are HSPs. What’s the science behind this newly popular label for understanding our ability to process feelings?

A photographer, romance novelist, screenwriter and psychologist answer an age-old question; talk about the stages of love (lust, romantic obsession, and attachment); and discuss how to keep love alive.

A look at the features for this week's broadcast of the #1 Sunday morning news program

Coffee shops are the perfect setting for a first date. VioletaStoimenova/Getty Images A good first date should let you get to know each other without

“We didn’t say ‘I love you,’” said Dr. Kaiping Peng, Associate Professor of Psychology Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley. I’d ventured over to his China office on the campus of Beijing’s mighty Tsinghua University to talk to him about the romantic prospects of China’s rising fleets of well-educated, unmarried Chinese known as shengnü, or “leftover women,”

Psychologist Arthur Aron compiled 36 questions to fall in love, with which he was going to make two strangers fall in love with each other. I tested them...

For centuries, poets, writers, filmmakers and musicians have been captivated by the phenomenon of love at first sight. But what have scientists found out about it?

Be honest, now — what is it that scares you most about crawling out of your covid-19 hidey-hole and going back to your workplace?

Be honest, now — what is it that scares you most about crawling out of your covid-19 hidey-hole and going back to your workplace?