14 Movies That Highlight the Best in Humanity: 2025

Every year, we at Greater Good give “Greater Goodies” to movies that illuminate human strengths and virtues. For us, the film of the year was Inside Out 2, which you won’t see listed here because we’ve already published multiple articles and organized an event about the Pixar film. Even so, this year’s is our longest […]

The Psychology of Scary Movies and Haunted Houses

Fall for me as a teenager meant football games, homecoming dresses—and haunted houses. My friends organized group trips to the local fairground, where barn sheds were turned into halls of horror, and masked men nipped at our ankles with (chainless) chain saws as we waited in line, anticipating deeper frights to come once we were […]