Psychology News

Canadian researchers have provided new evidence that gamblers interpret near-misses as frustrating losses rather than near-wins. This frustration stimulates...

Scientists at the Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, have discovered that people with psychopathic tendencies have an impaired sense of smell,...

A team of researchers from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and the University of Texas has found that East Asian and American Facebook users...

An international team of scientists has found ambient background noise to be an important factor affecting creative cognition among consumers. The new...

A team of scientists from the University of Granada in Spain has found that many of the individuals claiming to see the aura of people – traditionally...

A team of researchers from the University of Warwick and Indiana University has found that humans move between patches in their memory using the same strategy...

According to a team of researchers from the Northumbria University, UK, their new study could explain why Fabio Capello recently quit as England manager...

A team of researchers from the University of Montreal has revealed that emotional responses differ between men and women, and that a woman’s memory of...

Researchers have found that people with bad credit scores are more impatient, stated in a press release from the Association for Psychological Science. The...

Original thinkers are more likely to cheat than less creative people, possibly because this talent increases their ability to rationalize their actions,...

Researchers from California Institute of Technology and UCLA reported that neurons throughout the amygdala, a center in the brain known for processing...