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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.
  • Relationships

A machine learning model read the lives of 2,800 people between 39 and 93 to find who actually spends old age giving to the next generation, and the strongest predictor was not income or health or even emotional stability
  • Relationships

The way a partner reacts when you come home with small, ordinary good news, a minor raise or a good sandwich, can tell you something about the relationship that the hard days don’t, and researchers were surprised to find that quietly being happy for you isn’t quite enough
  • Inner Life

For a century we believed habits form slowly through repetition. New research suggests the change happens abruptly and that trying too hard may be why it doesn’t
  • Inner Life

People who feel like they are quietly improvising their way through adult life while everyone around them seems to have a plan are usually not failing at adulthood, they are just paying closer attention than most
  • Inner Life

The thing you’re calling anxiety may not be a problem with your life. It may be what happens when you demand too much certainty from it.
  • Green Horizons, Places of Power

The air you breathe has likely passed through forests, oceans, animals, cities, fires, storms, and other people before reaching you, which means every breath is less private than it feels and more like borrowing from the whole planet
  • Inner Life

Thought of the day from psychologist Daniel Goleman: “If you don’t have self-awareness and are not able to manage your distressing emotions, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.”
  • Inner Life

The happiest moments in your life probably had one thing in common: you weren’t trying
  • Relationships

A 16-year study of 373 couples found whether they fought in year one made no difference to whether they divorced. What predicted it was something researchers had to watch very carefully to see.
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