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Good news for parents: Those pricey piano lessons or random toy parts littering your floors may one day lead to the next scientific breakthrough.

It happens in military units, street gangs and even among athletes on sports teams. In some cultures, the rituals mark the transition from adolescence to adulthood. And in fraternities and sororities, it's practically a given.

How can some people resist the attraction of immediate pleasures and pursue long-term goals, while others easily succumb and compromise their ultimate expectations?

Through analysis of the human genome, Basle scientists have identified molecules and compounds that are related to human memory.

White-collar criminals – those convicted of fraud, embezzlement, tax violation, anti-trust and other business offenses – have no more problems adjusting to prison than those in a general prison population.

Bold and outgoing or shy and retiring –– while many people can shift from one to the other as circumstances warrant, in general they lean toward one disposition or the other. And that inclination changes little over the course of...

There is a swirling controversy regarding the suspicion that medications prescribed for the treatment of ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) primarily act to control disruptive behavior as opposed to having primary effects on the ability to attend to the environment. Thus, there...

Research published in the November issue of Social Psychological and Personality Science found those who viewed pornography were more likely to engage in extradyadic behaviors.

Just thinking about 'homo economicus' inhibits people's sense of trust, according to two Chinese researchers.

The famous ancient Greek thinker Socrates defined philosophy as melete thanatos -- 'meditation on death.' More than 2500 years later, psychologists are beginning to pick apart how the awareness of death impacts humans' cognitive functions and maybe even gives rise...

UCLA psychologists have used brain-imaging techniques to study what happens to the human brain when it slips into unconsciousness. Their research, published Oct. 17 in the online journal PLOS Computational Biology, is an initial step toward developing a scientific definition...

When financial gain depends on cooperation, we might expect that people would put aside their differences and focus on the bottom line. But new research suggests that people's racial biases make them more likely to leave money on the table...

The explosion in music consumption over the last century has made 'what you listen to' an important personality construct – as well as the root of many social and cultural tribes – and, for many people, their self-perception is closely...

Those who embrace free market economics are more likely to reject mainstream scientific views regarding climate change and vaccinations.

Researchers from UCL have found that children with irregular bedtimes are more likely to have behavioural difficulties.