Feeling stressed may prompt you to go to great lengths to satisfy an urge for a drink or sweets, but...

In certain circumstances, women may be more effective than men when negotiating money matters, contrary to conventional wisdom that men...

Teens prescribed anti-anxiety or sleep medications may be up to 12 times more likely to abuse those drugs illegally than...

Children who are emotionally abused and neglected face similar and sometimes worse mental health problems as children who are physically...

People living in more liberal countries are happier on average than those in less liberal countries, but individually, conservatives are...

Learning to play a musical instrument or to sing can help disadvantaged children strengthen their reading and language skills, according...

High rates of suicide among military service members and veterans may be related to traumatic experiences they had before enlisting,...

Frequent marijuana use can have a significant negative effect on the brains of teenagers and young adults, including cognitive decline,...

Nearly 40 percent of women who earn engineering degrees quit the profession or never enter the field, and for those...

Physically fit sixth-graders – especially girls – are less likely to report feeling depressed when they reach seventh grade, according...

Cigarette warning labels can influence a smoker to try to quit even when the smoker is trying to avoid seeing...

While preferring silence to music from the West, chimpanzees apparently like to listen to the different rhythms of music from...

Middle- and upper-class elementary school students in Kentucky demonstrated worse academic performance when they were required to start classes early,...

When it comes to being perceived as effective leaders, women are rated as highly as men, and sometimes higher -...

Despite the stereotype that boys do better in math and science, girls have made higher grades than boys throughout their...