General Psychology

Sometimes the best way to prepare for the future is to get stuck in the past. Nostalgia is the quintessential bittersweet emotion, but as far as the science is concerned, the sweet ...
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There are a lot of statistics that can tell you how bad the 2008 financial crisis was. In the US, unemployment almost doubled. More than half the country saw their total wealth ...
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What makes employees loyal to their employer? Competitive salaries? Lavish benefits? OK, those things definitely don't hurt. But some new research suggests that trust also plays an important role. The study, a ...
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When we hear someone talk, we don't just listen to their words. We combine what they're saying with their body language and any other information we have to put together a fuller ...
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What's that smell? That's the smell of your social network. A study just published ended up with some results that will make you stop and think – or at the very least, ...
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Let's say you find someone who just did something generous and put them on the spot by interviewing them. You ask them, "Why did you do that generous thing?" They might say ...
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A few months ago, I saw the documentary Stress: Portrait of a Killer. As you can tell from the name, it's not a film that has a lot of good things to ...
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Honestly, I tend to tune out when people talk about the power of positive thinking. The idea that being optimistic can solve all your problems never really rang true to me. Surely ...
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People are switching jobs more than ever before. An analysis published by LinkedIn this week found that job-hopping has almost doubled in the last two decades. Chalk it up to a changing ...
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Rejection is a part of life, but it's a part of life that isn't particularly fun. Because we're social animals, we respond to rejection in a predictable way: we feel bad. But ...
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