In lectures on adolescent development I always draw peoples attention to the additional risk of drug and alcohol involvement faced by...

While we can "decide" to think about certain things, other information -- including activities we have learned like counting -- can enter...

Binge drinking patterns are one of the hardest drinking habits to break, especially in young people and students.Researchers found the...

Researchers have conducted one of the largest surveys of people's first memories, finding that nearly 40 per cent of people had a first...

Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with my perennial interest in the psychology of political thinking. Certainly, in these...

My intuition is that there are a lot of very different disorders which present with a very similar symptom profile which are broadly...

In a recent blog entry Problems Expand with Solutions, I described the psychological process whereby people fail to recognize progress. ...

In lectures on life course development I often discuss the differences between men and women and in particular, in what genders value in...

Stressful situations affect the brain and body differently in people with schizophrenia compared to people without the mental illness or...

Researchers have recently begun to realize that biological sex plays a key role in disease risk. Sex plays a role in hypertension,...

Everyone's so busy these days that it is easy to think you need to schedule time to have fun. But be careful about how you do that, said...

When educators and coaches make kids feel like they matter, it reduces delinquency and destructive behavior. A new study led by a...

Some brain networks become more densely connected during adolescence while others become less so, according to a new analysis published...

I hugely admire Prof Dan Gilbert's research. You will see numerous references to his intriguing research on the nature of happiness on...

Whilst autism is not really my area, I am often asked about elements of the disorder. So I thought I would share some of the latest...

Special training for teachers may mean big results for students with autism spectrum disorder, according to Florida State University and...

In lectures on anxiety and trauma I describe how the re-writing of memories can alter the emotional response we experience from...

Fatemeh Akhlaghi, the Ernest Mario Distinguished Chair in Pharmaceutics, is part of a team working to develop a novel medication to treat...

In teaching Motivational Interviewing I describe how we need to listen to the emotional emphasis of the client's statements rather than...

There is a lot of interest in the role that the auto-immune system plays in the development of psychosis. For a very readable review of...