A new study suggests that assortative mating, where partners choose a mate like themselves, can be explained by looking at ...

Doubling-back aversion—defined as the tendency for an individual to forego taking an easier or faster route when it involves ...

A new study examines the extent of adverse effects for those who meditate and pinpoints those most at risk of experiencing ...

The Carolina Reaper is so hot, it makes jalapeños taste like milk. It’s so hot, it causes people to hallucinate, vomit, pass out, wish they’d never been born. It’s so hot that the guy who ...

What is a good life, and how can we create it?...“We wanted to capture more explorative, adventurous, creative types of good life,” like those of artists and poets, said Shigehiro Oishi, a ...

Numerous studies since then have backed up Harris’s core idea that parents don’t matter as much as many people think. Genes, for example, seem to play a bigger role than the environment that children ...

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Anxiety symptoms among U.S. adults, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, appear to have remained stable, according to a massive ...

How to give better adviceResearch suggests that when we give advice, it’s often biased toward our own experiences. We share insights that we would find useful, but they might not be as relevant to the ...

In the mid-1990s, scientists at the University of Parma, in Italy, made a discovery so novel that it shifted the way psychologists discuss the brain. After researchers implanted electrodes … ...

Being ignored, excluded, or overlooked at work inflicts more damage on our physical and mental health than does being harassed, a new study shows. Canadian researchers found that while most people ...

Procrastination is complex in its causes and the ways it affects the lives of those who wait; the consequences can be taxing on your well-being ...