A laugh may signal mockery, humor, joy or simply be a response to tickling, but each kind of laughter conveys...

Clenching your right hand may help form a stronger memory of an event or action, and clenching your left may...

People buy larger amounts of soda when purchasing packs of smaller drinks than when offered single servings of different sized...

Playing video games for an hour each day can improve subsequent performance on cognitive tasks that use similar mental processes...

A study published this week in PLOS Medicine finds that while antipsychotic medications are associated with small-to-moderate improvements in depressive...

The human brain can learn to treat relevant prosthetics as a substitute for a non-working body part, according to research...

Finding Mr. or Ms. Right is a complicated process, and choosing a mate may involve compromising on less important factors...

People view brown-eyed faces as more trustworthy than those with blue eyes, except if the blue eyes belong to a...

In the virtual world of Second Life, female avatars expose substantially more skin than males, independent of their virtual body...

In the 1960s and 1970s, classic social psychological studies were conducted that provided evidence that even normal, decent people can...

Caffeine perks up most coffee-lovers, but a new study shows a small dose of caffeine also increases their speed and...

Children as young as five are generous when others are aware of their actions, but antisocial when sharing with a...

Fear of math can activate regions of the brain linked with the experience of physical pain and visceral threat detection,...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota's Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR) have found a small population of neurons that...

A team of neuroscientists have proposed a new and potentially revolutionary way of determining the neuronal connectivity (the "connectome") of...