psychology
The American Psychological Association recently released guidelines for treating boys and men. Men aren’t happy about it.
The dogs’ ability to recognise and process human faces surpasses even that of monkeys. This newly-identified brain region may be the reason why.
The pressure of getting into a top-tier college seems to have influenced the ways teenagers sort themselves into cliques.
“The best is the child in a separate room, where it then remains alone,” a bestselling Nazi-era parenting book advised.
Researchers discover whether genes or social interaction shape personality.
The study suggest implicit biases can change significantly over a relatively short timeframe.
How mutual admiration was torn asunder by the sex drive: Freud, Jung and the schism at the heart of psychoanalysis.
The study shows when the ‘Napoleon complex’ is most likely to emerge.
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Researchers have changed their tune on how the disorders develop.
Celebrating five years since Grain Brain was published, David Perlmutter doubles down on his warnings.
The relationship between our genotypes and our psychological traits, while substantial, is highly indirect and emergent.
New psychology research suggests people get more lasting joy from giving gifts.
Nurturing several relationships at once can empower us to build a life so rich that when we lose one love among many, we don’t feel as if we’ve lost ‘everything.’
From psychology to neuroscience, what we believe is not nearly as relevant as why we do.
Looking at the 2011 earthquake in Japan, researchers found that natural disasters make men — but not women — more fond of taking risks.
In Well Grounded, behavioral neuroscience professor Kelly Lambert says it’s all about contingency planning.
It isn’t mind over matter as much as mind properly working with matter.
Childhood trauma can affect a child’s brain in dramatic ways for the rest of their lives.
From the cosmic blast into another being’s mind, to rolling bliss or obedient mind-slavery, fictional drugs have it all.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is updated for the 21st century in a new study.
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Phone usage was found to have similar reinforcing tendencies as eating or doing drugs.
The great mythologist reminds us that our bliss is part of our suffering.
A new study re-assesses multitasking.