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Friendships are integral to human health and well being, yet researchers know very little about how people make friends. A new study investigated what people prioritize for new friendships.
When you’re upset, finding a new way to think about a negative situation can help you feel better. But researchers find the process takes some effort to really work.
Pulling together the results of 40 experiments done by different teams over decades, researchers found that infant boys and girls equally tune in to human faces and voices.
Whichever side of an issue you’re on, it’s likely that at the root of what gets you fired up are deep, fundamental human fears about mortality, moral responsibility and meaning.
Conversations around misinformation that assume everyone cares about literal truth may be missing the point.
Friendship isn’t a tit-for-tat balance sheet, but that’s how researchers have traditionally defined it. New studies are refining the model to be less about transactions and truer to real life.
By cranking up the difficulty on the test task, researchers found that children are capable of finding systematic solutions to complex problems far earlier than psychologists had believed.
Imagination is a fundamental tool for everyday life. Unsurprisingly, many kids harness it during athletic play, conjuring a fun teammate, a supportive coach or a worthy opponent.
How researchers measure the logical reasoning of monkeys, pigeons, rats, fish and wasps shapes how they understand mental processes in animals − and in people.
The yardstick of progress is broken. It’s time to stop using wealth alone to measure how Africa is doing.
A happy marriage comes with many benefits for mental and physical health. Theory and recent research suggest same-sex couples have accessed those benefits since the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision.
A global study seeks insights into what helps people feel happy, healthy and satisfied – and what holds them back.
A psychologist explains how group identity, polarizing issues and social media are driving people apart – and suggests some remedies.
Researchers probed what psychologists call the ‘paradox of effort’ to learn how different people value work they could do in the future or that they’ve already accomplished in the past.
A social scientist tracking adolescents’ beliefs and behaviors over time was uniquely positioned to document changes in teens’ worldviews after Trump’s 2016 election.
By thinking of the flow of anger, you can unpack its key dimensions: its path and intensity. Is the stream pointed effectively? Is its strength appropriate?
People from many different cultures across the globe and across millennia largely agree about which body parts are most valuable – and how much compensation they warrant when injured.
A psychologist and human connection researcher explains how individual acts of kindness and connection can have a real impact on global change when these acts are collective.
Every human brain still holds primitive instincts that we share with our monkey ancestors. Is that part of your brain in charge when you cast your ballot?
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