Jealousy is a powerful emotion that can shake the foundations of even the strongest relationships. Sometimes, we may not even realize that our actions are triggering feelings of insecurity and ...

The traditional view of ego defense mechanisms is that they maintain emotional equilibrium and self-esteem. Evolutionary ...

Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality defines the unconscious mind as an accumulation of feelings, thoughts, ...

Researchers tend to refer to this behavior as “automatic” rather than unconscious. Most automatic behaviors result from something called overlearning —doing them so many times that they become a habit ...

Li Zhang has anesthetized a lot of mice in his research career. Several years ago, the University of Southern California neuroscientist's team began noticing that sometimes, when they placed an ...