Psychology

  1. Psychology

    Migraines respond to great expectations

    Patients get more pain relief from drug and placebo labeled as headache busters than from those labeled as dummy pills.

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  2. Life

    Feedback

    Readers discuss dog origins and how important a sense of scale is in science journalism.

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  3. Psychology

    Year in Review: DSM-5’s controversial debut

    The diagnostic manual updates disorder criteria.

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  4. Psychology

    Moral Tribes

    Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua Greene.

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  5. Psychology

    When stressed, the brain goes ‘cheap’

    A new study shows that stress makes you go with your gut, biasing your decisions against the more “expensive” method of thinking things through.

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  6. Psychology

    Barcelona soccer team’s 2009 wins led to slight baby boom

    In Bages, birth rates rose 16 percent, but in Barcelona they only increased 1.2 percent.

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  7. Psychology

    The Tell

    The Little Clues That Reveal Big Truths About Who We Are by Matthew Hertenstein.

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  8. Science & Society

    Heal thy neighbor

    As antidepressants and other drugs gradually replace psychotherapy in the United States, new forms of the talking cure are growing in popularity in developing countries ravaged by civil war and poverty.

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  9. Psychology

    Gut reaction could foretell marriage satisfaction

    Unconscious gut reactions may predict happy, and not-so-happy, marriages, a new study suggests.

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  10. Psychology

    People prefer to just get pain over with

    A new study shows that people would rather experience pain ASAP, even if it means experiencing more pain.

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  11. Psychology

    Almost-lifelike hands perceived as creepy

    Devices have to be very realistic to the escape uncanny valley of eeriness.

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  12. Psychology

    Do you want the good news or the bad news first?

    Do you want to hear the good news or the bad news first? A new study purports to answer the question. But can we apply this to how we deliver news? Well, I have good news, and I have bad news.

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