Husbands and wives married for a long time don't look at marital problems in the same way. When a marriage has troubles, women worry and become sad and they get frustrated. For men, it's frustration…

Recent negative publicity surrounding police after several shootings of civilians appears to have diminished the motivation of some police officers but did not decrease their willingness to carry out…

Alcohol and nicotine use have long been known to go hand in hand but other than a commonality in reckless behavior, the reasons why have been speculation.   Previous surveys have shown that more…

Even anger is sexist, says a new psychology paper.  A new paper focused on jury deliberation behaviors found a distinct gender bias when it comes to expressing anger and influencing people. The…

Warning: Stereotypes may be harmful to patients' health. A national study led by a USC researcher found people who encountered the threat of being judged by negative stereotypes related to weight,…

Psychology has not kept pace with science because symptom-based diagnosis stopped being used 50 years ago in medicine yet psychologists still rely on it. As evidence,the Diagnostic and Statistical…

A study of brain imaging reveals how neural responses to different types of music really affect the emotion regulation of persons - especially in men, who process negative feelings with music and…

Social networking makes it easy to monitor the status and activities of a former romantic partner, an often unhealthy use of social media known as interpersonal electronic surveillance (IES) by about…

REM sleep, the phase of night-time mammalian sleep physiology where dreams occur, has long fascinated scientists, clinicians, philosophers, and artists alike, but the identity of the neurons that…

Girls from families with a history of breast cancer, or genetic mutations that increase the risk of a breast cancer diagnosis, seem to adjust just as well as other girls when it comes to general…