Psychological Review publishes articles that make important theoretical contributions to any area of scientific psychology, including systematic evaluation of alternative theories. Papers mainly focused on surveys of the literature, problems of method and design, or reports of empirical findings are not appropriate.
Egoism, Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, sadism, spitefulness and others are among the traits of the malevolent side of human personality. As results from a recently published German-Danish research project show, ...
Sep 27, 2018
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Why are we so sure that the way we see people, situations and politics is accurate, and the way other people see them is foolishly wrong?
Jun 9, 2022
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A new model for identifying personality traits may help organizations save money by improving the hiring process and with evaluating employee performance.
Jan 7, 2017
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How do our personalities develop? What do we come with and what is built from our experiences? Once developed, how does personality work? These questions have been steeped in controversy for almost as long as psychology has ...
Feb 14, 2018
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We place a high value on teaching children to say "thank you" and "I'm sorry." As adults, these simple words are central to many social interactions. Uttering the words is easy, so why do people often hold back? And why does ...
Mar 14, 2019
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You can hack your brain to form good habits – like going to the gym and eating healthily – simply by repeating actions until they stick, according to new psychological research involving the University of Warwick.
Jan 28, 2019
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Many experts on infant learning have suggested that the best way to teach adult language to a tiny baby is to speak as if the infant is another adult – because adult sounds, cadence and tone of voice are what the child ...
Jun 27, 2016
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Every day, people try to make sense of challenges in their lives. But sometimes their explanations get in the way of solving them, said Stanford psychologist Gregory Walton in a new paper in Psychological Review.
Nov 5, 2018
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Our short-term memory is severely limited in everyday experience, but according to a new study from City, University of London and the Hungarian Academy of Science, it has no intrinsic limits when it comes to remembering ...
Jun 7, 2017
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The capacity of our working memory is better explained by the quality of memories we can store than by their number, a team of psychology researchers has concluded.
Feb 4, 2014
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