Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Whether you’re a skeptic or a believer, past-life memories have ...

From “affect” and “effect,” where one has an A and one an E, to “let’s” and “lets,” where that little apostrophe makes a big difference, English is filled with pairs of similar words you’re probably ...

“That which does not kill us outright makes us stronger,” wrote Friedrich Nietzsche more than 100 years ago. As a psychotherapist for 20 years, I’ve seen clients bear this out many times. “I wasn’t ...

Ann’s father suddenly died when she was 12, and now as an adult she is understandably hypersensitive to potential losses in her adult life. When her partner seems withdrawn, she automatically worries ...

Have you ever run into someone who you immediately felt a strong connection to, despite the fact that you'd never met before? This phenomenon could just indicate a random but powerful synergy between ...

For over a century, psychologists such as Sigmund Freud and Carl Rogers focused people’s attention on the past. And so when Mary struggles to maintain romantic relationships, she blames her past ...

“Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a ...

According to new research, physics does not distinguish between the past and future. Researchers found that because many equations allow for time reversal, flipping those equations will not change ...

Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species Sang-Hee Lee W. W. Norton: 2018. Many people assume that palaeoanthropology deals only with the past. The ...

In a way, all of us are time travelers. If we just pause and close our eyes we can wander back to our first kiss...our first breakup...that grandparent we should have visited...the summer that went on ...