A new study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin suggests that people consistently underestimate how much influence they have over their romantic partners and friends. This ...

When individuals with grandiose narcissism feel excluded, they often retaliate through subtle hostility. A recent study reveals that being ignored prompts these people to indirectly humiliate their ...

Children as young as seven begin to internalize stereotypes about who is more or less likely to pursue occupations related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)—beliefs that may ...

New research co-led by Liu-Qin Yang, a professor of psychology at Portland State University (PSU), suggests that the true ...

A recent study published in Consciousness and Cognition suggests that the human mind treats artificial agents much like real people. Working with an active digital partner tends to lower our conscious ...

Normally a mini-essay by a journeyman reporter for the New York Times would not be worth rebutting with another mini-essay. We can all agree that the world has quite enough mini-essays as it is. But ...

In light of an estimated replication rate of only 36% out of 100 replication attempts conducted by the Open Science Collaboration in 2015 (OSC2015), many believe that experimental psychology suffers ...

A new study published in Evolution and Human Behavior provides evidence that the tendency for young men to mistake ...

This is the story of my all-time favorite psychology study, with enormous implications for what it means to be human. Setting: Early 1970s, campus of Princeton University in New Jersey. Two behavioral ...

The backdrop of Japan’s rich cultural traditions, modern innovations, and unique social norms will help you learn more about how cultural contexts shape psychological processes. Whether it’s ...