Today, in a cabinet meeting, U.S. secretary of health and human services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., claimed that there is a link between autism and circumcision. “There’s two studies that show children ...

Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared with those who use no or little social media.That's according to ...

In a first-ever initiative made possible by a $70,000 grant from Empire State Development (ESD), the CUNY School of Professional Studies (CUNY SPS) BA in Psychology program brought 32 undergraduate ...

Social interactions are essential for our well-being and happiness, research has shown. And now a large study supports that finding and suggests there are many ways to squeeze in more companionship — ...

Of course, the dating-app questionnaires of today aren’t the same ones people were completing in 2013. And although major apps already use machine learning to note users’ preferences and to suggest ...

Imagine jumping out of an aeroplane and feeling nothing. No rush of adrenaline, or quickening heartbeat...."In that situation, SM and other individuals with amygdala damage will go nose-to-nose with ...

More than a decade after psychologists began to seriously wrestle with questions about the rigor and reliability of their work, there are signals that the field is improving. A recent analysis of ...

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has faced many criticisms over the years. Mental illnesses don’t neatly fit into its categories, boundaries for diagnoses can seem ...

New Year’s Eve in New York City. Mardi Gras in New Orleans. These are days when people flock to social media to post their latest escapades. But new research has found that inclement weather, like ...

Image above: Portraits of Randi Martin (L) and Elizabeth Kensinger (R). In my presidential column from the October Observer, I discussed how research in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience ...

The year 2019 was one for the record books when it came to global organizations raising prescient alarm bells about looming threats to humanity. For example, the World Health Organization (WHO) and ...

Questions often emerge when researchers tend to engage in research on topics that are personally relevant for them. For example, when someone with depression also studies it, should they disclose ...