Why do some people tackle tasks too soon? Here is the science behind pre-crastination, as well as tips to balance ...

Could "Big Brother" gaslight you into believing that "war is peace"? Sandra Newman's retelling of the novel 1984 offers a new ...

Ever tried not to think about something, only to think about it even more? The 'pink elephant' experiment reveals why that ...

In the spring of 1096, during the First Crusade, Christian crusaders and local mobs unleashed brutal violence on Jewish communities in the German cities of Speyer, Worms, Mainz and Cologne. Thousands ...

The Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971 is one of the most famous – and infamous – psychological experiments ... the director of National Geographic's recent three-part series "The Stanford ...

Parvalbumin (PV) interneurons in the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) have been identified as key players in encoding pain ...

Insects make up about forty per cent of living species, and we tend to kill them without pause. New research explores the ...

Summary: Adolescent rats fed a high-fat diet displayed increased impulsivity and altered decision-making as adults. These “cheesecake rats” were quicker to act on visual cues (indicative of ...

While such technology has the potential to increase efficiency across many fields, some researchers have voiced concerns that ...

This cost looms even larger when one can benefit from an unequal distribution of resources, a phenomenon known as advantageous inequity—for example, receiving a higher salary than a colleague with the ...

Prostitution is illegal in Japan but certain forms of adult entertainment such as ’soaplands’ are used as a loophole ...