Psychology News

Men tend to slow down by about 7 percent when walking with romantic partners, says a team of scientists from Seattle Pacific University, the United States. Men...

According to a new study led by Dr Tom van Laer from ESCP Europe Business School, a particular type of consumer enjoys stories with plots, characters,...

Waiting actually does make people more patient, which can provide a payoff for consumers by helping them make better decisions, according to Dr Ayelet...

Language can play a powerful role in what we see, say Prof Gary Lupyan from the University of Wisconsin and Emily Ward from Yale University. These images...

According to Dr Peter Jonason from the University of Western Sydney and his colleagues, people who stay up late at night are more likely to display anti-social...

According to a team of scientists from the University of North Carolina and the University of California, Los Angeles, different types of happiness have...

According to a new study published in the journal Psychological Science, the width of blood vessels in the retina – a light-sensitive layer at the...

According to a new study led by Dr Michael Melnick from the University of Rochester, people with high IQ scores aren’t just more intelligent, they...

Researchers at the University of Bristol’s Center for Market and Public Organization who studied why people choose to make large donations to charity...

According to a study conducted by Dr Jemma McCready and Dr Mark Moss from the University of Northumbria, England, the aroma of rosemary oil may improve...

According to a new study published today in the online journal mBio, male scientists are far more likely to commit fraud than females and the fraud occurs...

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...