Archive for October 2014

Spook Me, Please: What Psychology Tells Us About the Appeal of Halloween

By guest blogger Mathias Clasen It’s the time of year, at least in our part of the world, when darkness encroaches on us—literally and metap...

According to one estimate , 63 per cent of men and 54 per cent of women are in their current long-term relationships because their current p...

In Milgram's shock experiments , a surprising number of people obeyed a scientist's instruction to deliver dangerous electric shocks...

Organisations do better when there are clear communication channels that allow staff to point out ways the company can improve. Similarly, t...

Today the UK and its allies are at war with an extremist group based in Syria and Iraq that calls itself the Islamic State (IS; a name rejec...

Walking in a more happy style could help counter the negative mental processes associated with depression. That's according to psycholog...

Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so: Brain Games Exploit Anxieties About Memory Loss For Profit ...

In the last few years the social sciences, including psychology, have been taking a good look at themselves. While incidences of fraud hi...

Bank robbers and gamblers will tell you what people are prepared to do for the sake of money. But money also has more subtle influences. Bac...

When an accomplished creative writer gets on with their craft, their brain operates in a somewhat different way to a novice's. A new ima...

Imagine you wanted to lie to a five-year-old. "The toy shop is closed Billy," you say, "it always closes at 2pm on a Monday....

According to decades of psychology research , most people, including law enforcement professionals, are useless at detecting lies. But in a ...

John O'Keefe Image: Nobelprize.org This month John O'Keefe , May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physio...

If, as research suggests, the psychological trait of sensation seeking is the catalyst for youthful delinquency, might high emotional intell...