Marketing lore and common sense tells us we value...  ...to research published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology . Experiment 1A: Participants either inspected an...

Have you ever been told that you need to let y...  ...t's completely wrong. Cracked has a great list of psychology myths everyone believes that are utterly and comp...

A study by psychologist Paul Babiak indicates that one in twenty-five leaders could be a psychopath. This affliction could actually be an advantage in a workplace: The survey suggests psychopaths are actually poor man...

Sure your life might not be that bad, but if you keep feeling like you just need this or that to be happy, you're never going to actually be happy. Why? Because science says your entire idea of happiness is wrong. Le...

While there are always tons of memes floating around the net, most of them are mediocre at best. Scumbag brain, on the other hand, is something all of us can relate to, whether it involves keeping us up at night or r...

Dr. Vasilis K. Pozios is a forensic psychiatrist and reader of superhero comic books. He's spent his career studying dangerous criminals and is now applying that knowledge to comic book villains and the way in which Batm...

In 1971, psychology professor Philip Zimbardo began an experiment tha...  ...emic world and led to new standards for ethics in psychology studies. Forty years later, the Stanford Prison...

How's your psychology -fu? Do you know your Dependent Personality Disord...

Psychological researchers Michael W. Kraus, Stéphane Côté, and Dacher Keltner noticed that poorer people tended to be more dependent upon relationships that wealthier people: For example, if you can't afford to buy...

Frank Kachanoff, a psychology researcher at McGill University (Canada), conduct...