Being cool is hard. And understanding what it means to be cool is also hard. A fair amount of psychological research in the ...

You might be a bit sadder but definitely wiser when you learn to read between the lines in test feedback.

The new paper is one of the few empirical studies that examines what exactly makes people “cool,” said Jonah Berger, an ...

How refreshing to discover an anti-feminist psychiatrist. Very few people in the ‘helping professions’ have the courage to openly oppose the prevailing orthodoxy. But Hannah Spier is well placed to ...

The apex predators have offered up fish, birds, turtles and whales to humans around the world, according to the study.

As anyone with lactose intolerance knows, indulging a dairy craving can cause plenty of GI pain and bloating. And the ...

An international research team has presented "Centaur", an AI model that can predict human behavior across numerous cognitive ...

How can we decrease the amount of shoddy science and improve the rigor of research in the behavioral sciences?

Recent research suggests they can. At UC Santa Barbara, psychological researchers Madeleine Gross and Jonathan Schooler are investigating how to foster one particularly powerful trait: curiosity.

Six specific traits stood out as inherently "cool" compared to other traits that were generally regarded positively. These ...