A new study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology reveals that jokes, memes, and punchlines are significantly funnier when they are easy to process. This cognitive fluency helps our brains ...

“Familiar people, situations, landscapes, and events become intimate and comfortable”.

The estimates we make before starting work shape everything that follows—yet we're terrible at making them accurately.

Eating alone is not automatically lonely. A quiet breakfast can be a relief. A solo lunch can be practical. A dinner by oneself can be chosen, restful and

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According to a Pew Research report, Americans trust one another less than they did a few decades ago. Social trust is shaped largely by personal experiences of navigating the world, as well as by how ...

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Forming social connections online and via social media reduces how much people engage with and learn from the content posted but significantly boosts their networking performance, according to new res...

While charisma can be learned and kindness can be performed, there's one behavior so deeply embedded in some people that it reveals who they truly are when nobody's watching — and psychologists say it...

More and more women see this less as a simple observation and more as a reflection of the still very present social expectations surrounding femininity.

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Rate My Professors is a popular website for students to share grievances and compliments of their professors. Perspectives Staff Writer Alyssa Hunnicutt argues Rate My Professors harbors unreliable ev...

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Evidence from the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology suggests that connecting identity to political stances promotes extremity. This suggests that voters choose radical candidates because extre...

Autoimmune diseases misidentify parts of the body as a threat. Dehumanization mirrors this error. Here's why we dismiss others’ humanity and how to break the cycle.

New research finds that receiving gratitude may inspire you to help again, but not in every situation.

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Science explore schadenfreude—the pleasure in others’ failures—and reveals how it shapes envy, empathy, and self-esteem.

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People say they would feel worse telling others about their charitable acts than if they kept the news to themselves, or told others about their personal achievements, the study found.

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It’s the punctuation that can make you seem warmer and more agreeable – but also much more compliant and lacking in analytical thinking

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Many might think that when fatigue sets in during a running race, the key to perseverance is reminding oneself why the effort is worth it or focusing on reasons why they set the goal—intuition t...

Recognizing fake news is a challenge. An experiment based on open-minded thinking showed that you don't need much to help yourself.