A study published in the journal Emotion provides evidence that boredom motivates people to seek new experiences, even ones that are unpleasant. Across three experiments, researchers found that people ...

It’s natural for us to desire that our lives will only be pleasant. That said, in what’s known as the first noble truth, the Buddha provided us with a list of experiences that we’ll all encounter ...

Aversion therapy (AT) is a behavioral therapy that involves repeatedly pairing an undesirable behavior with an unpleasant experience with the goal of discouraging the undesirable behavior. Other names ...

My wife and I went to Lancaster with our small dog to visit family. We are both older citizens. When in Lancaster, we visit Beau’s Dream Dog Park. There are two sections, of course: one for small dogs ...