Your decision-making style—whether you make a "good enough" choice or seek to make the "best" possible choice among all possible options—influences your satisfaction with your partner, according to a 3-year study of newlyweds. ...
Mar 28, 2019
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Timing is everything, goes a popular phrase, and this is also true for relationships. As Valentine's Day approaches, social psychologists from Purdue University offer new research showing that a person's commitment readiness ...
Feb 13, 2019
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Conversations are fundamental to relationships and wellbeing, but they often leave people feeling anxious, uncertain, and socially excluded. Social and personality psychologists will present their latest findings on how people ...
Feb 8, 2019
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Good and evil may spring from the human mind, but new research reveals how they extend beyond humans to the artificial and supernatural.
Feb 6, 2019
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People with sadistic personality traits tend to be aggressive, but only enjoy their aggressive acts if it harms their victims. According to a series of studies of over 2000 people, these actions ultimately leave sadists feeling ...
Dec 19, 2018
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Contrary to a widely-held view in psychology and other fields of research, belief in free will appears to be unrelated to moral behavior. Social psychologist Damien Crone from the University of Melbourne and Philosophy professor ...
Jun 25, 2018
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When the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) changed their recommendation for breast cancer and cervical cancer screening from every year to every ...
Jun 20, 2018
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Judges may be just as biased or even more biased than the general public in deciding court cases where traditional gender roles are challenged, according to a new study published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality ...
Apr 3, 2018
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From job applications to being in line at the DMV, instructions, and the expectations that we follow them, are everywhere. Recent research found people with a greater sense of entitlement are less likely to follow instructions ...
Dec 20, 2017
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In almost as quickly as it takes to blink an eye, we make assumptions about a group of people. New research from UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) shows people perceive the sex ratio of a group, and decide if the ...
Dec 7, 2017
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