Sometimes thinking is a bad idea. Ian Leslie draws on Dylan, Djokovic and academic research to put the case for unthinking

In one experiment, just telling a man he would be observed by a female was enough to hurt his psychological performance.

New research provides evidence that people from higher social classes are worse at understanding the minds of others compared to those from lower social classes. The study has been published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

One study found that sitting in a discussion section on the ethics of meat led students to lower their meat consumption.

The National Park Service has warned against sacrificing slower friends in a bear attack ‘even if the friendship has run its course’

It is common for people to scoff at tears as a behaviour and a subject of investigation. Tears are, they say, feminine, self-indulgent and melodramatic. It is not hard to notice, in those beliefs, the patriarchal assumptions about what should be valued and what should be mocked. Writing teachers will instruct students not to show their characters’ sadness through crying, calling it cheap.

I.T. Romulus explains the types of behavior adults show when they reach 40 and up.

Is extroversion the mark of real happiness? Find out how introverted people can be the happiest people you'll ever know.

You’ve been clickbaited by your own brain.

A new psychological study published by University of Otago researchers has addressed centuries-old questions about how and why supernatural beings are worshiped. The "Mickey Mouse problem" commonly referenced in religious psychology refers to the difficulty in predicting which supernatural beings are capable of eliciting belief and religious devotion.

Anger gets a bad rap in the therapy – and spirituality – community. It’s labeled a “negative” emotion, and for good reason. When anger runs us and we react to it, it can blow like a volcano and make quite a mess of our relationships.

Using computer models, philosopher Daniel J. Singer, political scientist William Berger, and colleagues found that divides over factual issues can stem from humans’ limited memory capacity rather than from one side or the other being irrational.

Scientists start to chip away at the mystery of why one in 10 people is left-handed.

The above quote is from a German philosopher named Friedrich Neitzsche. Positive psychology came about in 1998 because of Martin Seligman's address

People may be intuitively dishonest, but only if it does not harm others.

The "arrow hypothesis" doesn't hold up.

In the 160 years in which "handedness" has been studied we have learned quite a lot, but we still cannot precisely describe what causes humans preferentially to use one hand over the other, or why human populations are biased toward right-hand use rather than left-hand use.

One of the most popular film franchises of the last decade has been The Purge series. The premise is simple: for twelve hours all laws are suspended and anything goes, always leading to horrendous and violent depravity. These films are popular in large part because they feed that pessimistic part of our brains that thinks...

A Tulpamancer creates a Tulpa, similar to an imaginary friend but with a twist. These imaginary friends possess their own thoughts and emotions. They can act independently of their creator.

New Stanford research on emotions shows that people’s motivations are a driving factor behind how much they allow others to influence their feelings, such as anger.