Stick 'em up. Credit: Me2, CC BY-NC-SA By Toby Miller, Cardiff University October 9 2014 was a big day in eco-activism: Lego announced that it would not renew a product-placement deal with Shell,…

Psychologists recently carried out hundreds of mock police lineups to determine the most successful procedure for identification of criminals. Inaccurate identification can obviously lead to the…

Some people are so obsessed with their food it smacks of zealotry. They might eat only a certain kind of fish cooked on a certain piece of wood.  They might even believe that they can taste the…

Adolescence is often a turbulent time for both genders, marked by biological changes and substantially increased rates of depressive symptoms. But girls seem to take it a lot harder and a new paper…

Pre-school kids have a lot to learn. They often don't even know how to tie their shoelaces or count to 100. But that is an applications issue. When it comes to skepticism, even kids at age 5 show…

Emphasizing weight in health definitions could be harmful to patients, finds an article in the Journal of Obesity.  Dr. Rachel Calogero of the School of Psychology at the University of Kent and…

Cerebral palsy is the most common motor disability in childhood, afflicting between between 1 and 4 per 1,000 kids born worldwide. It's more common among boys than girls and only about half of…

Sexting may be a new "normal" part of adolescent sexual development and not strictly limited to at-risk teens, according to a paper in Pediatrics, which the authors say is the first survey to address…

Call it cathartic but one modern way people in a bad mood feel better is to go on social media like Facebook and find friends doing even worse. A new paper says that generally people use social…

A few years ago, Susan Greenfield said something zany, even for Susan Greenfield: that the rise in autism diagnoses were related to the Internet. As Robery Olley once noted, she is the scholar who in…