People who have experienced chronic stress or trauma often report feeling unlucky or doomed. This isn’t superstition; it’s a ...

A longitudinal study in the Netherlands found that infants who displayed greater curiosity at 8 months of age tended to have ...

A recent study published in Psychology of Sport & Exercise has found that long-term engagement in competitive athletics is ...

Questions about the nature of consciousness remain among the most perplexing areas of modern scientific research, with ...

The psychology behind averted gazes reveals a complex tapestry of sensitivity, perfectionism, and self-protection that has ...

Affect is a positive-to-negative feeling in consciousness, and there is fierce debate about exactly what it is. This post summarizes the current state of the debate.

This creates a powerful loop: a negative thought enters the brain, and, due to its distressing contents, the brain signals ...

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new ...

This study provides important evidence that negative affect is associated with slower cognitive processing in daily life, with findings replicated across three independent samples and supported by ...

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new information.

A new study by Prof. Yaniv Shani of the Coller School of Management at Tel Aviv University and Prof. Marcel Zeelenberg of the ...

When we watch someone move, get injured, or express emotion, our brain doesn’t just see it—it partially feels it. Researchers ...