psychology

Dickens wrote, “I have the perfect conviction that I could magnetize a Frying-Pan.”

The bots are only partly to blame.

Quick, low-pressure art projects activate the brain’s reward center.

Researchers are studying whether technology use is connected to depression, anxiety, and other issues.

Everyone knows yawning is contagious. What this study presupposes is … maybe it isn’t?

A new study finds that people find attractive scientists more interesting, but less capable and credible.

Dr. David Mischoulon, director of research at Massachusetts General Hospital's Depression Clinical and Research Program, sets the record straight about antidepressants.

According to researchers, it can reduce trust between employees.

There is a trade-off that comes with flexibility.

We only have one audio recording of the founder of psychoanalysis, in a message for the BBC in 1938.

He's one of the few people to have a verb—mesmerize—named for him.

Putting too much pressure on your ability to change the world at work can lead you to quit your industry altogether.

That feel-good side effect of breaking a sweat isn't imagined.

And how do you quell it?

People living in denser environments have a more future-oriented mindset, one study finds.

Around 90 percent of Polish subjects were willing to administer painful electric shocks to a stranger when instructed by a scientist in the lab.

Plus, what you can do about it.

Contrary to prior reports, the new study found that living with a cat before birth or in childhood did not increase adolescents’ risk of experiencing psychotic episodes.