Psychology

A new psychology paper says people feel sad up to 240 times longer than they do ashamed, surprised, irritated or even bored. The reason may be because sadness often goes hand in hand with events of…

Due to increased awareness of suicide and military life, there has been concern military lifestyle may be causing more suicides. A new study instead finds that new soldiers are twice as likely to…

Psychology has endured a lot of black eyes in recent years. Numerous papers have used arbitrary interpretations of brain scans, surveys of college students and unreal levels of social priming,…

Credit: The Conversation By Jordan Gaines Lewis, Penn State College of Medicine If you’ve ever applied for a job, you know how hard it is to write the perfect cover letter that will make you stand…

We have over the years read of paintings by chimpanzees, but could they be art critics also? A recent article has appeared, outlining evidence that many cognitive tasks the we take to be a function…

Playing violent video games in 3-D makes everything seem more real –  and in a new study researchers found that people who played violent video games in 3-D showed more evidence of anger…

There are some things that Republicans and Democrats share in common with Palestinians and Israelis and lots of other groups where human conflict seems intractable. A new sociology paper in…

Getting high on own supply. Dance by Shutterstock By Adam Winstock, King's College London Despite the language we use about drugs, many people don’t see themselves as “drug users” but as rational…

Even depressed people are essentially optimistic - they believe that tomorrow will be better, even though that belief probably won't lead to better outcomes. That is true optimism. A paper in…

Some people suffer from 'winter blues' while others have no issue. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) affects people as daylight levels drop in autumn. At Northern European latitudes (for example…