During tough economic times, women engage in the "lipstick effect," stocking up on cosmetics and beauty products—a simple and familiar way to address their personal economic situation.
Jul 20, 2016
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Playing action-based video games may boost players' ability to coordinate incoming visual information with their motor control, a skill critical to many real-world behaviors including driving, new research shows. The findings ...
Jul 13, 2016
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New research focuses on a fundamental human habit: When trying to explain something (why people give roses for Valentine's Day, for example), we often focus on the traits of the thing itself (roses are pretty) and not its ...
Jul 5, 2016
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It takes children until they are about 5 years old to learn to take turns with others, while the social skill seems to elude chimpanzees, according to new findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association ...
Jun 21, 2016
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Teaching teens that social and personality traits can change helps them cope with social challenges such as bullying, which in turn can help mitigate stress and improve academic performance, according to a study by psychologists ...
Jun 20, 2016
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Students who score extremely high on standardized tests as adolescents often become high achievers in adulthood, a new study has confirmed.
Jun 3, 2016
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Researchers from the University of Rochester suggest that children raised in poverty may have been mistakenly labeled as "maladapted" for what appears to be a lack of self-control. The new study finds that what looks like ...
May 24, 2016
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Sometimes the one thing we want isn't available and we have to settle for second best—instead of picking the closest substitute, new research suggests we'd be better off picking a not-so-similar alternative.
May 10, 2016
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Parents' beliefs about whether failure is a good or a bad thing guide how their children think about their own intelligence, according to new research from Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological ...
Apr 28, 2016
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Does looking at a honeycomb, aerated chocolate or any other cluster of holes trigger an emotional reaction?
Apr 28, 2016
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