The flow of astonishing research findings with business implications has never been greater. Just about every day, we hear about some counterintuitive study from behavioral economics or social ...

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People with health anxiety tend to get tangled up in problematic behaviors, such as reassurance-seeking, excessive body checking and avoidance. These behaviors act like a vortex, sucking you into that ...

The research group decided to take advantage of the potential of the massive multiplayer online role-playing game ArcheAge, where thousands of people interact ...

New research provides experimental evidence that the sensation of déjà vu can trigger an illusory feeling of being able to ...

According to new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Facebook altered the News Feeds for hundreds of thousands of users as part of a psychology experiment devised by the ...

n I was shocked and saddened to see Daniel Stein’s letter (“Required psychology experiments are unfair,” Sept. 13, p. 6) concerning the required participation in psychology research. Mr. Stein is very ...

Get ready to have your mind blown with 10 incredible experiments. From physics and chemistry to psychology and biology, each ...

Philip G. Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial "Stanford Prison Experiment" that was intended to examine the psychological experiences of imprisonment, has died. He was 91. Stanford ...