There, I met (and spoke with) my first psychology celebrity, one of the legends in our field: Philip Zimbardo of Stanford ...

A new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology reveals that the fear of missing out, or FOMO, ...

Normally, even in a roleplay study, participants in a social psychology experiment would at least be blind to the hypotheses, but those playing guards knew what the researcher expected of them.

If there's one thing everybody but Danny DeVito needs, it's a way to appear more likeable. Fortunately, psychologists have ...

A new study explores how the brain processes social acceptance and rejection, revealing how these experiences shape ...

Shue was relieved to be assigned the role of a prisoner, a position most participants assumed would be less taxing. The ...

Different people have distinct and subjective perceptions of their personal worth, broadly referred to as "self-esteem." For ...

New research challenges the idea that animals share humans’ sense of fairness, suggesting their reactions to unequal rewards ...

Using a combination of behavioral experiments, MRI neuroimaging and computational models, the study found that forming social ties relies on two brain functions: learning from positive outcomes, or ...

In recent years, evolutionary psychologists have suggested that we're not all that special. Animals, from corvids to capuchin ...

“Neuroeconomics is a field of study that uses theories and methods from neuroscience, psychology and economics to better ...