Can't stop laughing at the wrong time? Research shows your go-to strategy doesn't work, especially when others are laughing.

New research published in Frontiers in Psychology provides evidence that personality traits associated with malevolence have ...

Recent research reveals retirees withdraw just 2.1% of their savings annually—about half the amount experts recommend. Here's ...

Social rejection is a price paid by those who have the courage to be vulnerable. Game theory sheds some light on the ...

Extraversion: People with high extraversion scores are more social, and people with low extraversion scores are more ...

A financial “security” is nothing more than a claim on some stream of cash flows that investors expect to be delivered into ...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. isn’t always very careful about evidence — but when it comes to “gender affirmation” treatments, the ...

New research conducted in Portugal offers insight into the psychological roots of political ideology. The findings suggest ...

A team of UChicago psychology researchers used fMRI scans to learn why certain moments carry such lasting power ...

This study provides important evidence that negative affect is associated with slower cognitive processing in daily life, with findings replicated across three independent samples and supported by ...