From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release: Cooperating with other people makes many things easier. However, competition is also a characteristic aspect of our society. In their struggle for contracts and positions, people have to be more…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: It’s mid-February, around the time that most people waver in their commitment to the resolutions they’ve made for the new year. Many of these resolutions — whether…
From the Karolinska Institutet press release: What happens in the brain when we feel discomfort? Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden are now one step closer to finding the answer. In a new study published…
From the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine press release: Offering compensation can be an important tactic to attract potential participants for enrollment in research studies, but it might come at a cost. A new…
From the University of California – Santa Barbara press release: Love can make us do crazy things. It often prompts us to behave in counterintuitive ways, like, for example, placing the wellbeing of our loved…
From the University of Rochester press release: The field of adolescent psychology is increasingly focused on parents, with researchers asking how mothers and fathers control themselves (and their rising anger) in difficult interactions with their…
From the University of Jyväskylä – Jyväskylän yliopisto press release: Identity formation is a major developmental task in adolescence but continues throughout adulthood. Significant individual differences, however, emerge. The long-term role of personal styles for…
From the Carnegie Mellon University press release: A new study from Carnegie Mellon University suggests that greed, and not the willingness to return the favor, is the main reason people give in to bribery. But…
From the Kent State University press release: Kent State University Professor Andrew Lepp, Ph.D., remembers the incident well. About two years ago on campus, he encountered a student entering data into a spreadsheet using a…
From the University of Arizona press release: Smartphones have become a constant companion for many of us. In a recent study by the Pew Research Center, nearly 50 percent of adults reported they “couldn’t live…