Some people say memes of white women confronting Black people provide a handle on behaviors born of entitlement and privilege, while others point to misogyny...

Though smiling generally increases trust, new research provides evidence that it can backfire for people with certain antisocial personality traits.

In new studies, many people "reported that morally good beliefs require less evidence to be justified, and that, in some circumstances, a morally good belief can be justified even in the absence of sufficient evidence."

How individualism has cultivated a "me" approach to living.

Talk is cheap, that’s why it’s so popular. It’s easier to put up ‘mission accomplished’ banners than to accomplish missions. It’s easier to tweet #MeToo than to investigate politically inconvenient sexual assault allegations. Why do something hard when you can just posture instead? If enough voters believe the hype it’s all to the good.

People want to help each other, even when it costs them something, and even when the motivations to help don't always align, a new study suggests.

Older people more likely to hoard toilet paper; Americans hoarded more than Europeans.

Psychology shapes the likelihood that readers will conclude contested information in news reports has been intentionally falsified.

New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.

On initial contact, a sociopath will often test other people's empathy, so questions geared towards discovering if you are highly empathic or not should ring alarm bells.

Humans can detect a person's gender through smell alone, even if they don't know they are doing it, a recent study suggests. The study, published in Current Biology details how people are often intrinsically able to identify the gender they are attracted to through smell alone, regardless of their own sexual orientation.

The Behavioral Change Stairway Model was developed by the FBI's hostage negotiation unit, and it shows the five steps to getting someone else to see your point of view and change what they're doing. It's not something that only works with barricaded criminals wielding assault rifles — it applies to most any form of disagreement.

A new study finds that girls police social hierarchies by slut-shaming one another. Though hashtag campaigns like #YesAllWomen remind us that women are often the victims of men’s misogyny and sexual aggression, men are not the only culprits. A new study finds that young women are guilty of bullying their peers using degrading sexual language.

Could've, should've, would've. Everyone has made the wrong choice at some point in life and suffered regret because of it. Now a new study shows we're not alone in our reaction to incorrect decisions. Rats too can feel regret.

The human tongue may have a sixth sense—and no, it doesn’t have anything to do with seeing ghosts. Researchers have found that in addition to recognizing sweet, sour, salty, savory, and bitter tastes, our tongues can also pick up on carbohydrates, the nutrients that break down into sugar and form our main source of energy.

My best friend from childhood had two beautiful dogs, a German shepherd named Sari and an Australian shepherd named Chloe. Living on a large pasture in the Midwestern countryside, the dogs were both mellow and incredibly well-behaved... that is, until my friend and I decided to mess with them. No, we didn't engage in dog shaming (see photo above); instead, we did something much more ruthless.

Researchers report encouraging advances toward a blood test that can pick up genetic changes linked to suicide. Behaviors can’t be reduced to your genes – they’re far too complicated for that. But genes can lay the foundation for making people more or less likely to respond and act in certain ways, and suicide may be the latest example of that.

We saw the impala first, a young buck with a proud set of ridged and twisted horns, like helical rebar, bounding across the open plain at full, desperate gallop. But why?

Women college students spend an average of 10 hours a day on their cellphones, with men college students spending nearly eight hours, according to a Baylor University study on cellphone activity published in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions.

One Saturday night this summer, a foreigner fainted and fell to the floor of a Shanghai subway car. The passengers around him scattered. Not a single person tried to help. When the train arrived at the next station, hundreds rushed out, nearly trampling each other. The incident was captured on closed-circuit cameras.