A new study of German twins suggests that the strong connection between a young adult's cognitive ability and their future socioeconomic status is largely driven by their genes, rather than shared ...

If you find it hard to keep secrets, psychology has several explanations. Emotional, social, and personality factors ...

Emotional intelligence (EI) and social competencies (SC) are critical constructs and are now extending beyond the field of organizational psychology, ...

Best friends influence a teen's emotions and grades, while popular peers dictate social media use and body image.

Parenting struggles often appear in everyday conversations. A family-science framework shows how reflection, empathy, and mindfulness can strengthen parent–child relationships.

Fake news is the deliberate presentation of false or misleading claims as news. Such content can distort perceptions, foster ...

Why are adolescents so sensitive to their peers' behavior? And is this sensitivity necessarily negative, as the term peer ...

In the early 2000s, a relatively new concept emerged to describe a very specific type of desire. The word sapiosexual describes a person who is sexually attracted to intelligence. For these ...

As children enter adolescence, peers become a dominant force in their lives. With adult supervision waning, teens look to agemates for guidance on how to act, think and fit in.

Abstract: Criminal networks are the social networks that show the individual and their links involved in illegal activities. The influence maximization (IM) problem aims to find the top influential ...

Abstract: Identifying positive influence dominating set (PIDS) with the smallest cardinality can produce positive effect with the minimal cost on a social network. The purpose of this article is to ...