I was home in San Francisco earlier this year when my mom told me that our family had a connection to Peoples Temple. We had just finished brunch and were crossing Divisadero, one of the main thoroughfares of the Western Addition neighborhood, also known sometimes as the Fillmore, in which we had both been born and raised. I think I must have prompted her on the subject, asked her if she’d realized the 40th anniversary of Jonestown was coming up in November and if she had known anyone who died there. That’s when she turned to me in the cross walk and said quite matter-of-factly: “Of course.”

Susie McKinnon doesn’t remember being a child or remember being any age other than she is now: in her 60s. She can’t remember special events, either. She knows she went to her nephew’s wedding. She knows her husband went with her. But she can’t actually remember being there. In fact, she has very few memories from her life – but she doesn’t have amnesia.

Stay up nights with the British writer as she takes on insomnia.

Mouse studies show tiny intercellular pods convey to sperm a legacy of a father’s hard knocks in life

You know the drill: Spring forward, fall back. And the clocks will indeed shortly fall back, bringing Daylight Saving Time to an end on Sunday, November 4.

Why does nobody want to be normal? It turns out sometimes it’s good to be ordinary.

By Christian Jarrett. Active behavioural change is required to achieve shifts in personality.

New research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect — possibly opening a Pandora’s box for Western medicine.

Limiting the utilization of social media Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat directly leads to reductions in loneliness and depression, per a recent study revealed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. The study is titled “No more FOMO: Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression,” and as a part of it, researchers determined 143 college boy students over 3 weeks.

The surprising link between narcissism and impostor syndrome

Brain changes, visible on scans, are also associated with Alzheimer’s precursors

Smoking, obesity, limited physical activity and a less healthy diet are among factors that strongly predict the likelihood of depression. That likelihood increases with each additional risk factor a person possesses.

Grief is both real and measurable. Scientists now know that the death or your father or mother will forever alter your brain chemistry and may also have physical effects.

People who need to make a good impression on dates or in job interviews should concentrate on communicating the hard work and effort behind their success, rather than just emphasising their talent, new research from Cass Business School has found. In Impression (Mis) Management When Communicating Success, published in Basic and Applied Social Psychology, Dr Janina Steinmetz investigated how people attribute their success on dates and job...

Researchers and autistic artists are exploring immersive visuals to study and simulate autism traits

New psychology research suggests that most people do not view psychopathic personality traits as particularly desirable in a romantic partner. But the ...

Researchers identified two styles of thought which affected the likelihood of someone believing fake news.

Want a happy, satisfying relationship? Psychologists say the best way is to learn to take a joke.

You can painstakingly show somebody tons of bulletproof evidence and present flawless logical arguments but often they still won’t change their mind. What gives? The problem is that the human brain is not a purely rational computer. And when we ignore that, even the best of efforts to convince others can fall flat.

The familiarity backfire effect is a cognitive bias that causes people to remember a myth as true, after they are shown information which is meant to prove that it’s false.n Since the familiarity backfire effect plays a crucial role in how people respond to refutations of pseudoscientific theories and conspiracies, it’s important to understand it. In the following article, you will learn more about this cognitive bias, understand why people experience it, and see what you can do in order to debunk myths in a way that accounts for it.

Psychology researchers in Ireland have shed new light on why volunteering is associated with reduced depressive symptoms.

The internet could be fuelling a rise in new conditions such as cyberchondria and cyberhoarding, experts have warned. While researchers say most internet use is benign, it can lead some people to develop problems. Now experts are calling for more research to understand the range of problems that exist, who might be at risk, and how individuals can be helped.

Social media has created a world in which everyone seems ecstatic – apart from us. Is there any way for people to curb their resentment?

Everyone’s social nightmare might have lasting effects on relationships.

New research sheds light on how the structure of online social networks causes misinformation to go viral on the internet. The findings, published in PLOS One, indicate that social “echo chambers” act like kindling that gives misinformation the initial flare up it needs to quickly spread. “While the link between ‘echo chambers’ and ‘fake news’ has been both widely discussed and been the subject of significant research effort, this discussion has largely left out the impact of the complex network dynamics that are so quintessential to online social media,” said study author Petter Törnberg, a sociologist from the University of Amsterdam.

A psychological concept known as "stereotype threat" holds that the awareness of negative stereotypes can hamper women's mathematics performance.

In this article I interview clinical Psychologist Dr. George Simon the internationally-recognized expert on manipulation and character disturbance, and the bestselling author of In Sheep’s Clothing, Character Disturbance, and The Judas Syndrome

Parents should not spank their children, the American Academy of Pediatrics said on Monday in its most strongly worded policy statement warning against the harmful effects of corporal punishment in the home. The group, which represents about 67,000 doctors, also recommended that pediatricians advise parents against the use of spanking, which it defined as “noninjurious, openhanded hitting with the intention of modifying child behavior,” and said to avoid using nonphysical punishment that is humiliating, scary or threatening.

Humans’ fascination with robots follows a long tradition of connecting emotionally to inanimate objects.

There are many studies about how we process tonal music and figurative painting, but philosophers are just beginning to understand how our brains react to more abstract work.

As told by a 20-something graduate student.

Beliefs can be hard to change, even if they are scientifically wrong. But those on the fence about an idea can be swayed after hearing facts related to the misinformation, according to a study led by Princeton University.

Greed might not be so good if you hope to make money and pass on your genes. According to new research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, selfish people tend to have fewer offspring and lower incomes than their less selfish counterparts. “In research on human cooperation and its evolution it is often taken for granted that selfishness pays,” said study author Kimmo Eriksson of Stockholm University.

Past research has found that women tend to be less attracted to men who are shorter than themselves. Now, a new study suggests that women are also less attracted to men who are dumber than themselves. The findings appear in the journal Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences.

Clicking ‘Like’ is something most of us do without thinking. It’s a form of social currency that gives us a momentary jolt and revs up our dopamine centers. Yet who knew all our ‘Likes’ could predict our personality and be turned into a tool of political persuasion against us?