New research suggests a surprisingly simple way to ease social anxiety: assume first impressions are permanent. A study found ...

Children as young as seven begin to internalize stereotypes about who is more or less likely to pursue occupations related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)—beliefs that may ...

A speed-dating study published in Personal Relationships suggests that opposites do not necessarily attract regarding extreme personalities. Evidence indicates that highly kind individuals never ...

Since the early years of this century, it has been commonplace for computerized analyses of athletic statistics to guide a baseball manager’s choice of pinch hitter, a football coach’s decision to ...

Bailey Dunsmore talks to ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander about research studies at the University of Illinois Developmental ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the story of my all-time favorite psychology study, with enormous implications for what it means to be human. Setting: Early 1970s, campus of Princeton University in New Jersey. Two behavioral ...

Focus of teaching and scholarship: I am a clinical psychologist whose research explores the intersection of personality and psychopathology. Most recently, I have been working to elucidate underlying ...

When Indiana students search for their future, psychology is leading the way. According to a recent study by Studocu, the ...

A study of 2.1 million births found no link between prenatal acetaminophen exposure and ADHD or autism when researchers compared sibling outcomes.