Psychology

A new research paper analyzed how cooperative attitudes evolve in different age ranges.  The experiment was presented as a game via a web interface developed by researchers at the Instituto BIFI…

The University of Manchester's National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness found that mental health patients are at their highest risk of suicide in the…

Teenage boys are often considered aloof and distant by parents and driven by desire by teenage girls, but they are not so simple, say scholars at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public…

 In the most recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-5, the age of onset criterion for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was changed from 7, where it was…

Neonaticide and infanticide are horrible crimes to most people but in psychology it's all relative.  Dr. Helen Gavin, a psychologist at the University of Huddersfield, and Dr. Theresa…

No one worries about children like parents, and having a child with a pacemaker is even more worrisome. But kids who are worried over too much develop a low sense of self-competence which can…

Tofu is prized by vegetarians as an alternate source of protein, if they don't mind highly processed food that will make men sterile. But Dr. Oz, the Cornell Food and Brand Lab and others swear…

Combining the smoking cessation medication varenicline with nicotine replacement therapy was more effective than varenicline alone at achieving tobacco abstinence at 6 months, according to a study in…

If you are having fun rather than doing exercise because you are worried about your health, you'll eat less, according to a new paper which delves into how to market to your brain. Some people really…

Warren Buffett, billionaire invested, says that investors should try to "be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy only when others are fearful."  Yet other billionaires say that companies…