Psychology
Psychology
Psychology stories — what makes people tick, what childhood patterns shape adulthood, how high-functioning minds navigate the world. Part of our Mind & Meaning editorial section.
Psychology
In a 1962 Southern textile factory, 62 workers, nearly all women, fell ill with…
Psychology
Shown two everyday objects and asked which one they had seen first, 50 adults…
Psychology
Decades of social-psychology research show proximity and repeated exposure can…
Psychology
Psychologists once sent students into a room wearing an embarrassing T-shirt and…
Psychology
People who scored higher on intelligence tests as children tend to drink more…
Psychology
The 1973 “sane in insane places” study changed psychiatry, but later archival…
Psychology
Americans reported losing more than a billion dollars to romance scams in a single…
Psychology
We read the placebo trial behind the fake-supplement headlines
Psychology
The rage some people feel when someone chews nearby isn't rudeness or a short fuse
Psychology
The Oregon high desert is slowly erasing an entire city that thousands of people…
Human Factors
On a hospital ward where half the rooms were bright and half were dim, patients…
Psychology
Psychopathy may be two different things, not one
Psychology
The more money, time, or effort we've poured into something failing, the harder it…
Science & Engineering
For most of us the Hale-Bopp comet was a once-in-a-lifetime sight in the spring of…
Psychology