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Psychopathic personalities are some of the most memorable characters portrayed in popular media today. But scientific research suggests that psychopathy is a personality disorder that is widely misunderstood.

Mothers with jobs tend to be healthier and happier than moms who stay at home during their children's infancy and pre-school years, according to a new study published by the American Psychological Association.

Our senses of sight and hearing work closely together, perhaps more than people realize, a new UCLA psychology study shows.

Many young women who steer clear of alcohol while they're in high school may change their ways once they go off to college. And those who take up binge drinking may be at relatively high risk of sexual assault, according...

New research by psychologists at Queen Mary, University of London has revealed that the way we see the world might depend on reflexes in the brain.

As dizzying as it may sound, the impression that we are living in a 3D world is actually a continuous fabrication of our brains. When we look at things, the world gets projected onto the retina and information about the...

The witness points out the criminal in a police lineup. She swears she’d remember that face forever. Then DNA evidence shows she’s got the wrong guy. It happens so frequently that many courts are looking with extreme skepticism at eyewitness...

Children exposed to family violence show the same pattern of activity in their brains as soldiers exposed to combat, new research has shown.

In daily life, we recognize faces both holistically and also analytically—that is, picking out individual parts, such as eyes or nose. But while the brain uses analytical processing for all kinds of objects—cars, houses, animals—holistic processing is thought to be...

This study shows that at least in regards to perception of moving objects, hearing and sight are deeply intertwined, to the degree that even when sound is completely irrelevant to the task, it still influences the way we see the...

How the brain perceives color is one of its more impressive tricks. It is able to keep a stable perception of an object’s color as lighting conditions change.

The cerebellum is far more intensively involved in helping us navigate than previously thought. To move and learn effectively in spatial environments our brain, and particularly our hippocampus, creates a cognitive map of the environment.

A new report in Biological Psychiatrysuggests that deficits in endocannabinoid function may contribute to anorexia nervosa and bulimia.

Although portions of the visible world come in through one eye only, the brain instantaneously takes all that information and creates a coherent image.

It’s time for forgetting to get some respect, says Ben Storm, author of a new article on memory in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.