Chimpanzees may have more in common with human thinkers than previously thought. A new study published in Science by an ...

For years now, research studies across the world looking at happiness across our lifetimes have found a U-shape: happiness ...

A recent study disputes the notion that conservatives are inherently more rigid in their beliefs, suggesting both ...

The nature of these earliest relationships influences how we behave towards others and see the world long after we’ve grown—but in more complex and nuanced ways than researchers previously thought, ...

One of my favourite social psychology/social cognition studies is what I have come to refer to as the trick-or-treat study.

Trains move through the world's subway stations in a consistent pattern: arriving, stopping, and moving to the next stop—and ...

A new study reveals that sharing positive emotions with a partner can significantly boost health, especially as people get ...

"We are good at blaming and shaming...but actually it has the opposite effect," a senior author of the study said.

One hundred years ago, Smith College’s third president, William Allan Neilson, made a pioneering decision to officially establish the study of psychology as a separate entity from the philosophy ...

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