What effect do words with an emotional charge have on humans? While there is much psychological evidence for the power of words there is a dearth of biological research on this subject. An example of ...

Mention hypnosis, and the image that springs to mind is a caped magician swinging a pocket watch, seducing otherwise sensible people into barking like dogs. But hypnosis is more than a stage show act.

The following includes Hypnotic spoilers. Read our spoiler-free review here. Hypnotic, the new Netflix thriller from directors Suzanne Coote and Matt Angel (The Open House), has arrived to scare the ...

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Have you ever heard the phrase, "Be careful with your words"? While this phrase is mostly said to discourage people from causing verbal harm to others, there's another reason behind it. Our words hold ...

A few years ago I was at a reading given by Louis de Bernières when a woman in the audience stood up to say that some quality in his novels made her wonder whether he perhaps suffered from ...