Growing up with lots of sisters makes a man less sexy. For rats, anyway. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that the sex ratio of a male rat’s family when...
Read moreDetailsA new study in the Journal of Consumer Research found that ads featuring beauty products actually lower female consumers' self-esteem.
Read moreDetailsStudents who cheat in high school and college are highly likely to fit the profile for subclinical psychopathy – a personality disorder defined by erratic lifestyle, manipulation, callousness and antisocial tendencies, according to research published by the American Psychological Association....
Read moreDetailsAn experimental drug that lifts depression in hours likely works by rapidly stimulating connections between brain cells, a study in rats has revealed. The drug, called ketamine, quickly generated such synapses in a brain circuit implicated in human depression by...
Read moreDetailsSons who have fond childhood memories of their fathers are more likely to be emotionally stable in the face of day-to-day stresses, according to psychologists who studied hundreds of adults of all ages.
Read moreDetailsA study in rats has revealed striking gender differences in the brain's stress response that could shed light on women's proneness to mood and anxiety disorders. Female rat brain cells were more sensitive to a key stress hormone than males',...
Read moreDetailsIn a study that included three separate experiments, Charles E. Naquin, Terri R. Kurtzburg, and Liuba Y. Belkin found that people are more likely to lie when communicating via email than when communicating via a pen and paper.
Read moreDetailsPsychiatric research published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology in 2010 has found that the use of MDMA (more commonly known as ecstasy) during psychotherapy could aid in the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Read moreDetailsPsychological research published in Evolution and Human Behavior found that men born blind preferred lower a waist-to-hip-ratio in women than a higher waist-to-hip ratio.
Read moreDetailsPsychological research published in Psychology and Aging found that youth, feeling out of control, and having a high degree of self-concept differentiation are associated with increased sensitivity to stress.
Read moreDetailsResults of a study of antidepressant treatment for major depression suggest that changes in personality traits seen in patients taking the drug paroxetine (Paxil) may not be the result of the medication’s lifting of mood but may instead be a...
Read moreDetailsThe use of methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), better known as the club drug ecstasy, does not appear to cause any long-term increases in aggressive behavior, according to research published in Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.
Read moreDetailsPsychological research published in Evolution and Human Behavior suggests that the face is more important to judgments of overall level of attractiveness than the body.
Read moreDetailsAccording to a study published in Behavioral Neuroscience in 2010, the ability to retrieve social information from memory can be impaired by a brief exposure to stress.
Read moreDetailsA study published in Individual Differences Research in 2010 has found some differences between the reasons college-aged men and women provide for using Myspace and Facebook.
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