It's the part of the brain that makes sure you cannot tickle yourself. The cerebellum, an apple-sized region near the...

Recent polls have shown that many white, working-class people in America feel pushed out by society, a reason why many...

Crowd wisdom such as what might arise from online voting is popularly assumed to provide better answers than any one...

Is the American socioeconomic ladder sturdy, offering a good chance for people to move up and down? Or is it...

The pseudoscience of physiognomy - judging people's character from their faces - has been around for centuries, but a new...

Even if we find it difficult to calculate complicated probabilities on the spot, our brains constantly carry out these sorts...

People who experience job loss, divorce, death of a loved one or any number of life's upheavals often adopt coping...

Investigators eager to uncover the genetic basis of autism could now have hundreds of promising new leads thanks to a...

New research provides some of the first evidence that medications taken by millions of American children to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder...

As incarceration rates have increased in the United States, so has the likelihood that children will endure the imprisonment of...

Curbing school bullying has been a focal point for educators, administrators, policymakers and parents, but the answer may not lie...

Princeton University researchers have captured among the first recordings of neural activity in nearly the entire brain of a free-moving...

Every day, people act in response to countless external stimuli, activities in the outside world that result in a specific...

Sometimes being too focused on a task is not a good thing. During tasks that require our attention, we might...

Your attention, please. People make mistakes every day because they lose focus. Maybe your car drifts across the center line...