New research finds that lifelong singles have lower life satisfaction scores compared to those in relationships.

The study of framing effects is a multidisciplinary line of research that investigates when, how, and why language influences ...

Are you feeling mentally ready for 2025?...Distancing yourself from your thoughts is also useful. Ethan Kross, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, has found that when people use ...

The website Wikipedia describes curiosity as a “quality related to inquisitive thinking, such as exploration, investigation, and learning, evident in humans and other animals.” But there is a lot more ...

Podcast: In this episode, we speak with Patricia Kanngiesser from the University of Plymouth about how children learn to navigate teamwork.

They're young and in love. But she's sick, and he's her caregiver, and that means nothing else comes easy....At this age, people typically explore new beliefs, relationships and friendships. It's when ...

Dr. Pamela Rutledge, Director of the Media Psychology Research Center, discusses why people love predictable, feel-good holiday movies.

One day in the summer of 1924, an anthropologist named Raymond Dart made an incredible discovery — and drew a conclusion from it about human nature that would mislead us for a century.Dart was ...

The moment when Earth’s Northern Hemisphere tilts farthest away from the sun—the December solstice, on the 21st this year—is not just a mark on the calendar. It is also defined by the way our bodies ...