A team led by psychologist Martin Doherty of the University of Stirling in Scotland found that visual illusions that befuddle adults don't effect children as easily. The pair of orange circles in the above illusion are s...

Your mother always urged you to sit up straight, and you should have listened to her. A study by researchers from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain and Ohio State University finds that sitting up straight make...

Psychological researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands conducted a study which supports the popular impression that men lose their minds in the presence of attractive women: The research shows men who spen...

Payday loans can have a annual interest rate of 400%, but people who take them don't look it it that way when they borrow $100 and pay back $115 in two weeks. Many fall into the trap of taking a second, third, or more lo...

After determining the biological basis of why teen...  ...completely different set of findings," said psychology professor Yuko Munakata at the University of Colo...

Joe Dziemianowicz of the Daily News wrote that even though President Obama doesn't like to reduce America into a collection of red states and blue states, he wore only red and blue neckties in his first 11 days in office...

Psychologists at the University of British Columbia have conducted a study on the cognitive effects of colors. They found that red helped subjects concentrate while blue led to greater creativity."Think about red, and wh...

Out-of-body experiences and even the sense of switching bodies with another person can be induced by tricking the mind with sensory illusions! In a study presented Tuesday, neuroscientists at Stockholm's renowned Karoli...