Treatment for the most common mental health problems could be ineffective or even detrimental to about 50 percent of the population,...

It seems reasonable that people would want to maximize various aspects of life if they were given the opportunity to do so, whether it's...

Recently, researchers have debunked the theories canonized in Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People that assume you...

Forsaken dreams. Romantic interests not pursued. Securing a job near home rather than an adventurous position overseas. Our most...

Recently published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Assistant Professor Christoph Riedl's latest research examines a model...

Babies are not blank slates. Lecturing on child and adolescent development I often describe babies as being pre-loaded with systems that...

Researchers have found that when a person rates their current mental health as 'positive' despite meeting criteria for a mental health...

We intuitively use more emotional language to enhance our powers of persuasion, according to research published in Psychological Science,...

More research on the effect of third person perspectives on anxiety reveals that social embarrassment can be reduced by shifting...

In lectures and training on human development, people are often intrigued when I discuss Johnathan Haidt's research that links the...

Most people can relate to the prickly, unsettling experience of déjà vu: When you're in a new situation, but you feel like you've been...

A recent study of relationships has found interesting predictors of infidelity within married couples. Read the surprising findings here.

Historically it was always believed that willpower was limited. For example, research showed that those who were encouraged to suppress...

Punishment might not be an effective means to get members of society to cooperate for the common good, according to a social dilemma...

Callous-unemotional traits have been linked to deficits in development of the conscience and of empathy. Children and adolescents react...

Doctoral student Alan S. Cowen and Prof. Dacher Keltner, PhD have created a new kind of map. Based on the study of emotion they have...

Sorry is always the hardest word to say, but research on social rejection suggests that you might benefit from sparing yourself this hurt...

Tackling the big issues of the day, it is surprising how much psychological research is devoted to this subject. The history of...

In the largest functional brain imaging study to date, the Amen Clinics (Newport Beach, CA) compared 46,034 brain SPECT (single photon...

More research has emerge regarding self-perception and anxiety. In lecturers I demonstrate how anxiety can be reduced by taking a...