From China to Brazil to Germany, huge numbers of people are addicted to shopping, driven in part by companies that use gaming strategies ...

The right kind of silence can be golden, revitalizing and strengthening a relationship ...

Giving in to cynicism makes us less trusting, less connected, and even less physically and mentally healthy.

The attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump was a massive shock that has jarred society, regardless of where one falls on the political spectrum. The shooting at Trump’s ...

The American Psychological Foundation (APF), a grantmaking organization that supports psychologists and service organizations, is announcing its new Direct Action Crisis Funding Grants. This program ...

But there’s another consequence of meditation that people do not always anticipate. Despite the ways in which wellness movements have emphasized a highly individualistic way of thinking about ...

The brain weighs factors based on their importance to oneself and one’s social world as part of a complex calculation that shapes behavior ...

In the U.S. and elsewhere, nationality tends to be defined by a set of legal parameters. This may involve birthplace, ...

The idea to study the potentially beneficial influence of mind wandering on information processing occurred to us during the COVID pandemic, when we had plenty of time to mind wander,” says Péter ...

Canceled grants and slashed budgets are disproportionately affecting junior health researchers, dealing a major blow to the ...

Although many people who studied psychology may work in jobs that perhaps do not, on the surface, seem “scientific,” the practice and education of psychology is guided by research findings that are ...