General Psychology

No mount of money is a substitute for happiness, or so the traditional wisdom goes. And science has tended to suggest that the traditional wisdom is right – that is, until a ...
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School is more than just a place for learning academic subjects. It's also where students mature as people and figure out how to be part of society. Kids take the more general ...
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In my last post, I wrote that people who're primed to think about free will tend to make riskier decisions. This is true, but like many things in psychology, it's not quite ...
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One of the things we can learn from psychology is that a lot of different factors outside our control influence our behavior. And one of those factors itself is whether we believe ...
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Last week I wrote about a study on what happy people tweet. But there's some research out that looks at another question: what do happy people eat? I always just assumed there ...
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Every year millions of people fill out brackets predicting the results of the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament. This year, Syracuse is the big surprise so far – less than one percent ...
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I've been following the US presidential primary elections pretty closely lately, and I woke up this morning thinking I should research an article about lying and deception for AllPsych. Funny how that ...
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Think 140 characters can't say much about you? There are some psychologists out there who disagree with you. In a new study, researchers took to Twitter to analyze the differences between tweets ...
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Imagine being totally absorbed in an activity you enjoy. Time melts away. You lose your sense of self-consciousness. You're in the zone. Mihály Csíkszentmihályi popularized the idea of "flow," the state of ...
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Good news if the cruel world of online dating has you down. In a new study, researchers from University of Sydney have given everyone who's ever been rejected online a ready-made rationalization ...
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