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

After studying 220,000 people in 22 countries, a surprising discovery about the relationship between income and happiness ...

The study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, suggests that subjective feelings about money and objective income levels influence well-being in different ways.

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In 1997, I set out to interview the distinguished psychologist Jerome Bruner (1915-2016); my theme, psychology and anthropology (my own area). I was interested in what links and separates the ...

Another interesting psychological aspect of FPS games is their potential for stress relief and emotional regulation. Despite their violent content, many players report feeling relaxed or de-stressed ...

Now, philosopher and researcher Lorraine Besser has written a new book, The Art of the Interesting, to explain what psychological richness looks like and how to attain it. She makes the case that ...