Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Are you curious about the world's most unusual habits? People can get hooked on things you might never even consider addictive.

These addictions are far from the usual suspects, beyond nicotine and alcohol. Some of these you may have never heard of, but ...

Today’s post is the first of a three-part series looking at some of the stranger addictions that have been written about in the academic literature (or by academics who have tried to argue that these ...

When you think about addiction, your mind probably jumps to the usual suspects: alcohol, drugs, gambling, or cigarettes. But the human brain’s capacity for developing compulsive behaviors extends far ...