Playing dead isn't the ultimate ghosting technique. Frogs use "tonic immobility" as a strategy to stay alive during mating ...

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Cognitive entrapment in the past resonates with individuals who have migrated or undergone life transitions. In a recent paper published in Diaspora Studies, we suggested that feeling psychologically ...

Stories about the end of the world are as old as literature itself. From the tale of Noah's Ark to the plague-ravaged landscapes of Mary Shelley's controversial 1826 novel The Last Man, writers have ...

Sexual assault often goes unpunished when victims fail to fight back. But investigators, psychologists and biologists all describe freezing as an involuntary response to trauma. Credit...Photo ...

For many animals, tonic immobility is a natural state that can best be described as a kind of temporary paralysis. You've heard the expression "playing possum." Opossums can easily enter a state of ...

If you have moved from one country to another, you may have left something behind – be it a relationship, a home, a feeling of safety or a sense of belonging. Because of this, you will continually ...

There’s no more vexing and persistent issue today than youth unemployment, particularly in America’s largest cities, places that propel the dueling forces of prosperity and poverty. Primary factors ...

In the Gulf Of California, a group of orcas have developed specialized shark-hunting skills that mean they can make short work of one of the ocean’s greatest predators. Known as Moctezuma’s pod, they ...