A political scientist explains how a confluence of personality traits and perceived status loss can encourage some people to generate chaos as a solution to their woes.
Logistical needs, like employment and housing, along with psychological needs must be met after disasters like the LA wildfires, research shows.
For more than two decades, Theresa Betancourt has studied Sierra Leone’s former child soldiers. Her new book Shadows into Light tells their stories.
3,000-year-old clay tablets show that some associations between emotion and parts of the body have remained the same for millennia.
A contest to design a sound-only magic trick could help psychologists learn about differences between visual and auditory perception.
Some scientists want to shift focus to the teen mental health crisis. But the course of happiness is too complex for simplistic theories, experts warn.
Using face filters to alter expressions manipulated feelings of attraction, raising questions about how such technology may influence social interactions.
Participants “navigating” on a lab computer have shaped navigation knowledge. Studies that add in the environment challenge those findings.
Brain scans revealed that teenagers with larger attention-driving networks were more likely to develop depression.
A new painkiller nearing approval called suzetrigine may prove to be an opioid alternative. But for many with chronic pain, treatment must go beyond pills.
