Decades of child bereavement research show auditory memory outlasts visual memory in early childhood loss, with lasting ...

Nothing is perfect, nothing lasts and nothing is ever finished. That's the core of wabi-sabi. And psychology suggests this Japanese philosophy may be onto something.

Published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, the study is one of the most comprehensive looks yet at how cannabis affects memory. The findings suggest cannabis can impair not only simple recall, ...

Cognitive psychology research on the Zeigarnik effect explains why unresolved relationship endings cause compulsive ...

The first time I noticed this about myself, it caught me off guard. A friend was sitting across from me, telling a story about something personal that had happened to them. The kind of conversation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I remember the exact moment my chest tightened before sending the text. It was just a simple boundary—letting someone know I ...

University of Houston professor of psychology Arturo Hernandez is disputing a high-profile study published in the journal Nature Aging claiming that people who live in multilingual countries show ...

Most of us nod along pretending to understand rather than risk looking ignorant by asking for clarification, yet research reveals that those who pause to ask "what do you mean?" are practicing a form ...

Nearly one in three Harvard varsity upperclassmen athletes study Economics — a concentration rate far higher than any other ...

A psychologist explains the evolutionary and psychological roots of laughter, and what an infant’s giggles teach us about how adults bond.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping many aspects of life quickly. Should college professors be evaluting student learning ...

These behaviors rarely get recognized as pain—because the women displaying them have spent a lifetime making sure they don't.