“If you’ve ever felt bad about being ‘ignored’ on Facebook, you’re not alone,” says Joshua Smyth, professor of biobehavioral health and of medicine at Penn State.“Facebook—with its approximately 800 m...

Countries that have English as at least one of their official languages, or whose main languages are linguistically close to English have higher rates of investment in other countries. Countries with ...

A new study shows multi-product launches help attract early adopters and build a network of individuals and companies that develop applications.Hemant Bhargava, a professor at the Graduate School of M...

“Individuality is a deeply ingrained value in American society, but, at least in the realm of marriage, being part of a ‘we’ is well worth giving up a bit of ‘me,’” says Robert Levenson, psychology pr...

In a recent study, Kathleen Vohs, an associate professor of marketing at theUniversity of Minnesota , had one group of subjects count cash and another count slips of paper. Soon after, she asked ...

In an experiment, people who viewed negative political advertising said the advertisements had little effect on their own opinions, but believed the ads would have a greater influence on others, says ...

“Having sold a stock, investors are disappointed if it continues to rise, and regret having sold it in the first place,” says Brad Barber, a professor in the Graduate School of Management at the ...

“The desire for women at peak fertility to unconsciously choose products that enhance appearance is driven by a desire to outdo attractive rival women,” says Kristina Durante, a post-doctoral fellow a...

“Most of us spend much of our time and effort focused on individual achievements such as work, hobbies, and schooling,” says Shira Gabriel, associate professor of psychology at University at Buff...

“The references to ‘dirty hands’ or ‘dirty mouths’ in every day language suggest that people think about abstract issues of moral purity in terms of more concrete experiences with physical purity,” sa...

“Religious identity serves as a language of social and political interpretation,” says Thomas Hirschl, professor of development sociology at Cornell University and first author of a stu...

Published in Eating Behaviors, the study is the first to show these links and offers additional evidence in a growing body of research that indicates the environment plays a powerful role in...

The results, from biologists and a political scientist, also suggest that biology—not just partisanship or ideology—can shape voters’ choices.“We often make snap judgments about candidates without ful...

Human nature has deep evolutionary roots and is manifested in relationships with family members, friends, romantic and business partners, competitors, and strangers more than in any other aspects of b...

Countries that have English as at least one of their official languages, or whose main languages are linguistically close to English have higher rates of investment in other countries. Countries with ...

“This is the first experimental evidence that fetal exposure to radiofrequency radiation from cellular telephones does in fact affect adult behavior,” says senior author Hugh Taylor, professor and chi...

Our research suggests that English proficiency gained at the expense of native-language fluency may not be beneficial for overall health status,” says Ariela Schachter, an alumna of Rice Universi...

“Our analysis of homicides and serious crimes in Trinidad and Tobago seriously undermines the contention that capital punishment offers a solution to Trinidad and Tobago’s soaring homicide rate,” writ...

Douglas Gentile, an associate professor of psychology at Iowa State University,and graduate student Edward Swing worked with researchers in Singapore to examine video-game playing as it relates t...

In seven separate studies conducted on the University of California, Berkeleycampus, in the San Francisco Bay Area, and nationwide, researchers consistently found that upper-class participants we...