Women who attended religious services had a lower risk of suicide compared with women who never attended services, according to an article published online by JAMA Psychiatry.
Suicide is among the 10 leading causes of death in the United States....
A study to be published in the July 2016 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry(JAACAP) reports that adolescents in urban communities may have less aggressive behaviors if they live in neighborhoods with...
The image on the left depicts a familiar object -- an apple --- while the one on the right shows a novel object that doesn't suggest anything familiar on the outside of the left and right borders.Credit: University of...
A new study by a Florida State University researcher shows that both a lack of stimulation in the workplace and a dirty working environment can have a long-term cognitive effect on employees.
"Psychologists say that the brain is a muscle,...
The left graph shows parenting methods (supportive, strict, indulgent) and their effects on children's success. The right shows parenting methods (easygoing, harsh, average) and their effects on children's success.Credit: Kobe University
A research group led by NISHIMURA Kazuo (Project Professor...
Menu selections with corresponding color-coded calorie labels.Credit: Penn Medicine
Imagine you're ordering lunch from your favorite online delivery spot, and just before submitting your order, you notice that the club sandwich in your cart is marked with a red stop...
Although math skills are considered notoriously hard to improve, Johns Hopkins University researchers boosted kindergarteners' arithmetic performance simply by exercising their intuitive number sense with a quick computer game.
"Math ability is not static -- it's not the case that...
The ability to understand and empathize with others' pain is grounded in cognitive neural processes rather than sensory ones, according to the results of a new study led by University of Colorado Boulder researchers.
The findings show that the act...
Is beauty only skin deep? Children don't seem to think so, like adults and babies, children think the uglier you are, the less trustworthy you are.
In a study recently published in Frontiers in Psychology, researchers have found that as...
Hands-free is just as distracting as hand-held phones while driving -- University of Sussex research. Credit: University of Sussex
Driving while talking on a hands-free phone can be just as distracting as talking on a hand-held mobile phone, psychologists at...
According to a recent study, people in relationships actually see tempting people outside of their partnership as less attractive.Credit: © Daniel Go/ Flickr
Though they meet thousands of new people in their lifetime, what underlying psychological factors might couples use...
