An eclectic collection of seven articles and four commentaries showcase the power and ongoing challenges of multidisciplinary ...

Dogs] have different relationships in different places of the world, and so when we approach understanding dogs as a species, we do so from this narrow perspective of Western culture,” said Espinosa, ...

Researchers are finding out just how different—and adaptive—learning and memory can be early in life. A new report shows that children learn arithmetic most effectively when instruction combines ...

It’s easy to support one another when there’s enough to go around, but zero-sum situations in which one person’s loss is another’s gain are known to bring out people’s worst tendencies—and the reality ...

This wasn’t just in my head. In a 2017 study led by the evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar, researchers at the University of Oxford found that nights out with friends support mental and emotional ...

Evidence from some wrongful-conviction cases suggests that suspects can be questioned in ways that lead them to falsely believe in and confess to committing crimes they didn’t actually commit.

Research involving people of low socioeconomic status (SES) has a troubled history. Past studies range from those painting low-income people as cognitively deficient to the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis ...

“Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me the truth and I’ll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever.” Once upon a time, long ago and far away (or perhaps not so long ago), ...

Matthias Mehl, a social psychologist at the University of Arizona, who helped conduct the study, recently set out to replicate his findings with a larger data set: audio from more than two thousand ...

There’s a reason why no one ever talks about “the bad old days.” A nostalgic longing for bygone times—and a sense that the present doesn’t stack up well against the past—is a common ...

Fear of Professional Backlash May Keep Women from Speaking Up at Academic Conferences Women are less likely to ask questions during Q&A session at academic conferences. They may fear professional ...