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is professor of psychology at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and a cognitive neuroscientist. He is the author, with John Eastwood, of Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom (2020). is ...

is an evolutionary social psychologist with broad interests in how the recurrent challenges of our distant past help us understand our motivational states today. He is the author of The Social Leap ...

An ancient floor mosaic found in Antakya, Turkey. Loosely translated, the Greek text ‘Euphrosynos’ may mean ‘be cheerful, enjoy life’. Courtesy Antakya Archaeology Museum/Wikipedia ...