At the recent Academy of Neurology Congress, scholars reported that among 1,034 people recruited from 35 countries via an online crowdsourcing platform asked if they'd ever had an Near Death…

Doctors, like scientists, often aren't big on putting themselves into stories and getting selfies with patients, or even accepting pictures as part of care. But selfies are a part of modern culture,…

Bystander apathy is a social psychological construct where it is believed that someone who sees a victim is less likely to offer help when other people are present. They say it is proportional to the…

If you have a large picture and you want people to focus on certain aspects of it, you frame it in such a way the eyes are drawn to it.  It's no different in media. Though journalists try to be…

While no one knows that causes posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), because it is a blanket term for anything that can be deemed "trauma", one thing is clear: United States Veterans seeking…

Some parents with a lesbian, gay or bisexual child report just as much struggle to adjust two years after the fact as they did when they first learned of their child's sexual orientation, according…

Social psychologists say we send out social cues not just with our facial expressions, but with the tilt of our heads as well. An otherwise neutral expression looks more dominant when the head is…

Dog owners insist that 'all dogs are puppies', which means our beliefs about their cuteness are not conditional on age, but a paper in Anthrozoos: A Multidisciplinary Journal of the Interactions of…

From herbicides to vaccines to pollution, there is a science consensus but there are still pockets of people who refuses to accept them. They are bolstered by disinformation campaigns. When it comes…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says autism diagnoses went up 43 percent from 2010 to 2014 in New Jersey, which uses research by Rutgers University, shows a significant increase in the…