By Dr Vasilios SilivistrisPsychology, the scientific study of the mind and behaviour, helps us understand why people think, feel and act the way they do. Because human behaviour is so complex, the ...

A new study finds that stimulant medication may not work quite the way we thought in treating ADHD. MRI images reveal ...

Turning 60 doesn’t lock in your personality. New research shows older adults can still grow socially and emotionally.

Normally a mini-essay by a journeyman reporter for the New York Times would not be worth rebutting with another mini-essay. We can all agree that the world has quite enough mini-essays as it is. But ...

A new study in The Journal of General Psychology finds that many introductory psychology textbooks continue to misrepresent landmark studies and perpetuate long-debunked myths, despite modest ...

Around this time of year, I like to take a tour of psychology studies from the last twelve months and pick out those that I think are really worth knowing about. There are, of course, several others ...

Even with highly extensive training, the human brain is not really capable of performing two tasks simultaneously. Moreover, even the smallest deviations from trained routines can have a significant ...

The study, published in the Journal Of Experimental Psychology, revealed that there are "cool" people are universally perceived as more extroverted, hedonistic, powerful, adventurous, open and ...

Last-year psychology majors' research sheds light on the effects of studying abroad on professional and personal development. Every year hundreds of students from SLU-St. Louis and other partnership ...

It’s the opposite of a “feel-good” moment. While hugs might seem like a display of affection, psychopaths use embraces and other forms of physical contact to control their partners, per an unsettling ...