The human mind has always fascinated scientists, but the quest to understand psychological behavior has led researchers down some disturbingly dark paths.

Conflict experience and resolution underlying obedience to authority: A group of researchers from Regensburg, Göttingen and Würzburg took up this challenge and investigated the conflict experience of ...

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A baby macaque monkey named Punch has gone viral for his heart-wrenching pursuit of companionship. After being abandoned by ...

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Imagine you're a researcher studying how sleep affects mood. To explore the connection, you would look at two key "variables": sleep (how much someone gets) and mood (how happy or irritable they feel) ...

A seismic shift has taken place in the last 100 years in the way we lead and manage people in the workplace. Early 20th-century management focused on workforce efficiency. This was the age of Henry ...

As a requirement for course completion, students in many courses must participate in four hours of experimental research for each of the first two courses they take in the psychology department.

News broke this weekend that Facebook secretly performed psychological experiments on 689,000 people by secretly altering their news feeds in hopes of inciting specific emotions. The news went viral ...