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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Like many children today, Scarlett Atkins-Calver was given her first smartphone at the age of 10, in her last year of primary ...

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A new study uncovers the neurological mechanisms that influence how we form social connections, and how we learn from social ...