From the University of Bath press release: Positive thinking has long been extolled as the route to happiness, but it might be time to ditch the self-help books after a new study shows that realists…
From the Penn State press release: People who seek novel and powerful sensations and are more prone to taking risks — and who perceive bitter tastes more intensely — are more likely to prefer bitter,…
From the Arizona State University press release: For some children, screen time before bed translates to less sleep. According to a study from the Arizona State University Department of Psychology, media use in the hour…
From the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology press release: Following the fast spread of COVID-19 across Europe and North America in March 2020, many people began stockpiling commodities including toilet paper. Some companies reported…
From the Queen Mary University of London press release: Some people are more sensitive than others — and around half of these differences can be attributed to our genes, new research has found. The study,…
From the Wiley press release: A study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society examined five personality traits — neuroticism, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and openness — and their links to pre-dementia conditions called motoric cognitive…
From the Virginia Commonwealth University press release: Psychopathy is widely recognized as a risk factor for violent behavior, but many psychopathic individuals refrain from antisocial or criminal acts. Understanding what leads these psychopaths to be…
From the Uppsala University press release: Individuals with social anxiety disorder have markedly different personality traits than others. Emotional instability and introversion are hallmarks, according to a new study from Uppsala University published in PLOS ONE.…
From the NIH/National Institute of Mental Health press release: Researchers investigating how temperament shapes adult life-course outcomes have found that behavioral inhibition in infancy predicts a reserved, introverted personality at age 26. For those individuals…
From the Tohoku University press release: Walking is one of our most natural, daily actions. Now, a new study led by a Tohoku University researcher suggests that walkers use step synchronization as a form of…