Elizabeth Kensinger discusses her research on the role of emotion in memory and changes in the field in an interview with APS ...

Individuals acting as caregivers saw a decrease in life satisfaction and mood, alongside increases in depression, anxiety, ...

Machines can now beat us at chess, create art, and even diagnose diseases. Yet, for all its capabilities, artificial ...

A decade ago then president Barack Obama proposed spending $75 million over three years to help states buy police body cameras to expand their use. The move came in the wake of the killing of ...

Whatever the cause, hypochondria is associated with a certain level of innumeracy, or trouble grasping risk levels—difficulty perhaps compounded by anxieties about those risks. Tobias Kube, a ...

The expression “a smile a day keeps the blues away” may have some credence beyond the realm of greeting card messages. The lingering question of whether a smile or frown lifts or depresses emotion has ...

It’s easy to sympathize with both my patient and her son. With the son for having suffered more than he might have with earlier intervention. With the mother for believing she had failed him and ...

The world is full of things to learn. Where to start? How to choose what to pay attention to? What motivates someone to seek new knowledge?We’re often curious in a particular way: we want to ...

The connection between food and cooperation was explored in a 2019 research article by Kaitlin Woolley and Ayelet Fishbach that was published by The Journal Psychological Science. The authors found ...

If a hard day in the office leaves you crabby and uncooperative, you may have an excuse: scientists say exercising self-restraint can exhaust parts of the brain related to decision-making and impulse ...

If you ever struggle to get to sleep, you might find that one of the things that keeps you awake is worrying about just how much you have to do the following day, especially if ...

Why some people cry more than othersMuch of that difference is likely to be the result of societal pressures and gender norms, experts say. Consider the fact that little boys and girls cry about the ...