People can learn from pain, perhaps more from other people’s than from their own. Yet knowing what other people feel depends on their ability to describe their suffering in words. Pain’s defiance of ...

One of the oldest questions in the history of psychology is about how language influences the mind. Does the language we use impact how we see the world? We know that many of our mental processes are ...

The most pain I’ve ever been in—my 10 on the arbitrary scale used in hospitals—was caused by gallstones. The condition is easily fixed, but my ordeal went on for months, because it was early 2020 and ...