An analysis of U.C. Berkeley students has concluded that inflated or deflated feelings of self-worth are linked to afflictions like bipolar disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, anxiety and…

If you want children ages 4 to 8 to tell the truth, it's best not to threaten to punish them if they lie. An experiment involving 372 children, led by Prof. Victoria Talwar of McGill's Dept. of…

What made the wealthy elites in San Fransisco and Seattle who deny the benefits of child vaccines suddenly clamor for government action to create more vaccines? Two cases of Ebola in the United…

Psychology surveys have found that when people go to bed and thus how long they sleep at a time might actually make it difficult for people to stop worrying. The surveys showed that people who sleep…

In a bygone era, the macho stereotype of the maverick doctor bucking convention, or the Marine running toward danger rather than away from it, inspired young men to want to be bold. No longer. Modern…

The sons of fathers with criminal records tend to have less intelligence than sons of fathers with no criminal history, according to data from over 1 million Swedish men compiled as part of the…

It's that time of year again. The days are shorter and nights are colder and with that comes people blaming bad moods and symptoms of depression on the decreased amount of daylight, saying, “Oh…

Not as simple as black and white. Fred Bchx, CC BY-NC-SA By Ian Rickard, Durham University Evolutionary psychology, the field that uses the process of natural selection to provide a theoretical…

Our culture tells women there's something wrong with them if they don't orgasm. Gustavo Gomes/Flickr, CC BY-NC By Sally Hunter, University of New England A recently published Italian study suggesting…

Shifting descriptions of schizophrenia. Shutterstock By Huw Green, City University of New York In an attempt to move away from the traditional language used to describe psychosis and schizophrenia,…