Kaja Perina

Linda Carroll's unorthodox relationship with her famous mother and infamous daughter forced her to reevaluate love, loss and the control we have over the people we most want to protect.
International artist Kiki Smith talks about how letting go of ideas and visions can open up a new world of perception and art.
Book reviews on trauma, spiritual daredevils, and family horrors.
Counterculture legend Ram Dass helps a generation cope with loss.
A highly regular word and sentence structure could translate into a hoax for an ancient manuscript.
Gordon Rugg is an authority on the ways authorities get things wrong. He cracked a medieval cryptographic mystery with paper, pen and basic reasoning.
German film-maker and his opposition to introspection and psychology.
A talk with Daniel Handler, the creator of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Psychotropic medications successfully combat symptoms of depression, anxiety and psychosis but fail spectacularly in reducing one crucial index of mental illness: suicide.
A new type of marriage contract helps divorce-proof love.
Interviews forensic psychiatrist Michael Werner about depravity. Definition of depravity; Importance of a depravity scale in criminal cases; Role of psychiatry in criminal cases.
How do students cope with procrastination? They lie and hoodwink instructors.
Two new publications empirically examine reports of alien abductions, recovered memory syndrome and cultural stereotypes. Statistical significance.
Seeking a common thread in corner-office departures. Executive leadership, CEOs and white-collar crime.
Suicide bombers have distinctive personality traits.
Discusses several studies that are related to diet and psychology. Role of the desire for weight loss in the drive to smoke; Effect of breast-feeding on children's intelligence levels; Effect of oatmeals on the memory.
Focuses on the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging in lie detection in forensic psychology. Impact of lying on the brain's activity.
A shortage of omega-3 fatty acids explains schizophrenia and the development of our species, according to David Horrobin.
Discusses research on the degradation of memory over a short period of time. Concept of memory as a constructive process; Results of a survey conducted by Kathy Pezdek, psychology professor at Claremont Graduate University in California after the September 11, 2001 terrorists attacks.
Never liked memorizing your multiplication tables? You could have math phobia.