A new article published in the Journal of Positive Psychology suggests that there are definite psychological advantages to adhering to a philosophy of minimalism and voluntary simplicity. “Research ...

Psychology Assistant Professor Sarah Merrill studies the chemical tags that trauma and other adverse experiences can leave on ...

Last-year psychology majors' research sheds light on the effects of studying abroad on professional and personal development. Every year hundreds of students from SLU-St. Louis and other partnership ...

For psychology Prof. Steven Franconeri, the rise of heated political conversations was more than just noise — it was a ...

A new study analyzing tens of thousands of edited selfies reveals that beauty standards on Chinese social media often favor ...

If you stand like Wonder Woman or Superman, will you feel stronger? Will you actually be stronger? Psychology researchers have investigated these questions for decades. After all, mind and body are ...

This is the story of my all-time favorite psychology study, with enormous implications for what it means to be human. Setting: Early 1970s, campus of Princeton University in New Jersey. Two behavioral ...

Psychologists seeking to explain evangelical Christians' opposition to LGBTQ activism attributed this suspicion to "zero-sum beliefs" (ZSBs), the sense that as anti-LGBTQ bias decreases, ...

When I initially decided to study abroad on the Summer Psychology in Croatia program, I imagined the classes would be identical to RIT Rochester’s psychology courses (I had already taken two ...

Courtney Walton receives funding through a McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Melbourne. He advises a number of elite sports codes and organisations nationally. Caroline ...

This is the story of my all-time favorite psychology study, with enormous implications for what it means to be human. Setting: Early 1970s, campus of Princeton University in New Jersey. Two behavioral ...