A new study, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, is the first-ever global meta-analysis on the possible link between...

Have you ever found yourself walking down a busy city sidewalk, so overwhelmed and overstimulated by all the signs, sounds, and cars that...

(Picture credit: Carnegie Mellon University) Science has well established that a person’s ability to perform a task is affected by what...

When you were in high school or college, what did your parents think of the music you loved? While there are exceptions, statistically...

Do you have an addictive personality? No. No, you don’t. How can we be so certain? Well, as it turns out that technically speaking,...

Got an important decision to make? If you’re feeling hungry, new research suggests you should probably have a snack or a meal before you...

How good are you at reflective thinking? If you’re a narcissist, your answer is probably something on the order of “stupendous, just...

Guns and mental illness: it’s a topic that frequently surfaces, in the wake of each mass shooting in the U.S. The problem, say some...

Where does extremist violence come from? In the wake of yet another American shooting by a white nationalist, this question is more...

Warning: it can cause symptoms similar to brain trauma, including increased impulsivity, decreased awareness of risk, and, perhaps most...

Although “yellow journalism” is probably as old as journalism itself (the term itself dates back to the Pulitzer vs Hearst circulation...

If you’ve ever read a psychology textbook, you’re probably familiar with the tragic and infuriating story of Kitty Genovese, a...

When we say that listening to the right song makes us feel better, usually we mean it in terms of emotions. However, a new study from the...

Happiness: it’s something we all want, and in one way or another, most of us spend our lives attempting to pursue it. Multiple industries...

At this point, it’s well-trod territory: why couldn’t star reporter Lois Lane recognize that her nerdy coworker Clark Kent was also...

Imagine that scientists have discovered a painkiller that is incredibly cheap to make, has no dangerous side effects, and performs at a...

Since the days of Hippocrates, science has struggled to quantify human personality, and group the seemingly infinite combinations of...

Does someone in your life havean unusually short fuse? Maybe you’ve witnessed a co-worker repeatedly go ballistic on the printer whenever...

How do you listen to music? I don’t mean “Are you a headphones person or more of a speaker fan?” I mean, what parts of your brain do you...

Are you likely to fall for a made-up government conspiracy? That depends: how well-informed are you? If you said “very”…bad news, you...