Health

Research tells us the brain is wired to learn quickly from bad experiences, while ignoring good ones. Neuropsychologist Rick Hanson says ...

With the Winter Olympics here, we’ve all got sports in our minds. But it is the mental fitness of professional athletes that allow ...

Positive emotions expert, social psychologist Barbara Fredrickson has some advice for all of us. It’s time to upgrade our view of ...

With New Jersey hosting its first Super Bowl ever, excitement has been growing across the state. Even more importantly, betting is alread ...

Any parent with a teenager can tell you that their child’s adolescent years can be confusing, anxiety-ridden, tumultuous. Even the ...

In this week’s ‘So, What Do You Do?’, college administrator Kevin Brown asks astronomer John Bochanski about life on ot ...

We’re tethered to our smartphones, tablets and computers. We leave our phones in plain sight during bedtime stories, holiday gatherings ...

Did you ever notice that your memory of an event changes depending on whom you’re with? Do you find yourself negotiating the detai ...

Giving of ourselves to help others is a win-win activity. It’s deemed generous, kind, and cooperative. It also increases intimacy, co ...

It’s a perpetual battleground in the war between the sexes.  Elisabeth Perez-Luna brings back dispatches from the frontlines. ...

An in-depth look at the making of the film, its impact, and the distance traveled in fighting HIV and AIDS. Twenty years ago this ...

For 40 million Americans, it’s chronic. For 20 to 30 million others it’s seasonal or temporary. Let’s face it, many of us don’t ...

We know that children of alcoholics are four times as likely to develop substance abuse problems than other children, and they’re at ri ...

In this So, What Do You Do?, a writer talks to an evolutionary geneticist about allele frequencies, technological evolution and ...

The journal American Psychologist has published a special issue on peace ...