Findings from the Journal of Sexual Medicine suggest that low sexual desire accompanied by distress is most common among women reaching midlife. Having a partner, being sexually inactive, and taking psychotropic medication was also associated with a higher likelihood of such distress.

College students struggled with mental health problems before the pandemic. Now, some vulnerable students are even more at risk.

Elementary-aged children often have issues with memory tasks, since they are still developing their cognitive abilities. But new research has determined for the first time that children improved their prospective memory when they were encouraged to both imagine completing tasks ahead of time and predict their performance.

A narrow focus on IQ to determine success is depriving us of key decision-making smarts, as our faltering response to problems such as covid-19 and climate change shows

Kids who see their parents bicker during a separation or divorce are more likely to develop a fear of abandonment, new research warns.

Spiritualist mediums, those who believe they can hear and communicate with the dead, are more prone to immersive mental activities and unusual auditory experiences in early life.

Can brain differences explain conservatives' fear-driven political stances?

European study led by the Max Planck Institute uses AI as a mental health tool.

Tales of post-apocalyptic landscapes in which few survivors emerge into a new and much different world have long been popular tales woven by screenwriters and authors. While many enjoy these stories, thinking of them as nothing but a guilty pleasure, they may not realize that immersing themselves in fiction has prepared them for the reality of 2020, according to a team of researchers.

The increases appear to have the largest effect when unemployment is high, according to new research..

Social media giant said the move was backed by anti-bullying and mental health groups

New research published in the journal Political Psychology provides evidence that political partisanship can reverse the expected effects of empathy. ...

Human memory is prone to error -- and new research provides evidence that anger can increase these errors.

Parents sometimes wonder whether giving their child medication for mental health sends the message that a pill solves problems--and might encourage young people to experiment with drugs. On the other hand, if the medication is effective, even only in part, it might make someone less likely to self-medicate with illegal drugs in search of relief.

It is an emotion linked to improved health and well-being, but is our obsession with being happy a recipe for disappointment, asks Nat Rutherford.

Eric Trump recently suggested that when his father, Donald Trump, bragged about grabbing women's genitals without consent, it was an example of "two alpha guys in a thing." In addition to shedding some light on how Trump's son views his father and manhood, it's also interesting because "alpha males" aren't actually a thing.

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

As Oregon has become the first US state to make psilocybin -- the hallucinogenic compound in magic mushrooms -- legal for mental health treatment in supervised settings, a new study finds it works to address depression symptoms

New research indicates that women with higher levels of social anxiety display heightened performance in a test of cognitive empath

A group of psychologists in the Netherlands have discovered that we have a tendency to gradually close ourselves off when dating online.