psychology

05/10/2016 - 14:30

Learning math and then science as an adult gave me passage into the empowering world of engineering. But these hard-won, adult-age changes... →

02/10/2016 - 12:40

Alas, it didn’t work. He lost his hair like many great men before and since, including Socrates, Napoleon, Aristotle, Gandhi, Darwin,... →

22/09/2016 - 12:58

Professor Simon Moore from Cardiff University said: “This has very important implications for how we might work to reduce excessive alcohol... →

08/09/2016 - 11:58

The political lens There is now a mountain of evidence to show that politics doesn’t just help predict people’s views on some scientific... →

31/07/2016 - 12:37

It was only in the early 1900s that British doctors realised that the housefly could carry disease on its bristly legs: flies were a major... →

07/07/2016 - 11:53

The people perpetrating these microaggressions may be completely unaware that they hold a prejudiced view. Psychologists distinguish... →

13/05/2016 - 17:51

Nevertheless, numerous lines of research, particularly on athletes, have given us compelling insights into the physiological and... →

18/03/2016 - 13:42

The origins of chemonoia can be traced to the 1960s, with mounting concerns about the use of pesticides such as DDT. The cheerleader of... →

17/02/2016 - 14:32

Proctor had found that the cigarette industry did not want consumers to know the harms of its product, and it spent billions obscuring the... →

05/02/2016 - 13:02

Why are young men like this? Part of it seems to depend on testosterone, acting on their brain during early foetal life. Exposure in the... →

28/01/2016 - 16:29

When we get the hang of it, he throws out his first test question: “Have you ever cheated on a test?” The ‘nos’ move their dots to the left... →

08/01/2016 - 14:59

Ansell and Co. gave participants a smartphone app that prompted them to record stressful experiences and small acts of kindness, like... →

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