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The Vessel Editorial Team

The Vessel Editorial Team produces content on psychology, philosophy, spirituality, and the questions people return to about how to live well. We publish essays, reflections, and explorations drawn from psychological research, philosophical traditions, and contemplative practices. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, research, drafting, fact-checking, editing, and review, rather than a single individual's writing. The Vessel takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.
Two friends sitting on green garden chairs in the Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, turned toward each other in conversation, seen from behind
  • Inner Life

Happier people spent more time in meaningful conversation, a recorder study found, and when a larger study checked, that link held and the case against small talk did not
Spectators in the stands at a figure skating championship, a woman in the foreground in profile holding a flag and watching the ice
  • Inner Life

The more the women in one survey prized happiness, the lower their well-being, though only when life was less stressful, and reading that happiness pays made a gold-medal moment land flatter
Brown anole (Anolis sagrei) displaying dewlap. Photo: Nosferattus / Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).
  • Places of Power

In May 2005 one male and one female Anolis sagrei lizard were moved from Iron Cay to each of seven hurricane-cleared Bahamian islands; within four years every population had evolved shorter hindlimbs
A woman in a dark dress stands with her back turned in the doorway of a pale, quiet interior, beside a bright window
  • Inner Life, Relationships

People keeping a secret reported hiding it in conversation far less often than it simply came to mind on its own, and it was those uninvited moments that went with feeling worse
Workers laying asphalt on a road. Photo: Sammya Nig Ltd / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). Thematic paving for recycled-plastic asphalt story.
  • Green Horizons

On Earth Day 2021 Dow and Shiny Meadow laid China’s first recycled-plastic asphalt road at ECUST in Shanghai; its 300 metres hold over 200 kg of plastic from 6,000-plus milk bottles and other wastes
Two people sitting close together under knitted blankets, hands linked, faces mostly turned away
  • Inner Life, Relationships

After a poor night of sleep, people tended to report more conflict with their partner the next day, and in the lab it was not only the tired one who misread the other
  • Relationships

We tend to read children’s screen time as a discipline problem, but a Family Relations study of 822 U.S. caregivers found it sat closer to the parent’s own stress than to the child’s behaviour.
  • Inner Life

People who let their mind slide during the quiet stretch of a task and snap back just before it gets hard may not be undisciplined, a preregistered clock-task study suggests they may be strategically modulating their attention.
  • Inner Life

People who remember the order of a day but not its details aren’t losing their memory, they’re showing what sleep tends to keep: roughly 53 adults in a Baycrest art tour held onto sequence, not surfaces.
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