Many Westerners take morning showers, toilet tissue and sitting toilets for granted. But in much of the rest of the world, these habits are rather strange – and may be less hygienic.

Don’t try to change someone else’s mind. Instead, help them find their own motivation to change.

How often do you clear out old photos on your phone or tidy up your email inbox? You just may be a digital hoarder, and researchers from Northumbria University have identified four distinct types.

The pandemic has helped expose an urgent problem—the widespread lack of public washrooms. Rose Hendrie on where we can and cannot go.

Scientists in Brazil have linked resistance to Covid-19 safety measures, such as wearing a mask, with antisocial personality traits. Their study was the first of its kind in Latin America and surveyed over 1,500 people aged 18-73. Using a questionnaire, the scientists sought to identify the participants’ affective resonance - their impulse to act on feelings stirred by another person - and asked a series of personality questions about how well certain statements represented their behaviour on a scale.

Men and women are equally likely to wear face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research.

Despite more of the population staying at home as government policies on COVID-19 become stricter, a study has found that a person’s personality influences how

Playing hard to get and attachment styles are investigated in a new study.

About 10 per cent of Australians are left-handed and genetic analysis of more than 1.7 million people has brought scientists a step closer to understanding why.

If you work for Bank of America, or the US Army, you might have used technology developed by Humanyze. The company grew out of research at MIT’s cross-disciplinary Media Lab and describes its products as “science-backed analytics to drive adaptability.” If that sounds vague, it might be deliberate.

A new study attempts to pin down what makes a person seem "creepy."

People with higher levels of social anxiety tend to have a harder time shifting their attention away from an angry-looking face towards a happy-looking ...

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...

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."

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

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

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

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

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.