For many people, celebrating New Year’s Day can include reflecting on a life well lived or a chance to start anew. But for some, the holiday may have dark undertones, according to a recent large ...

A growing body of research suggests that the more you fight against your pain, the stronger and louder it’s going to get. Marsha Linehan, a retired University of Washington psychology professor and ...

Are you feeling mentally ready for 2025?...Distancing yourself from your thoughts is also useful. Ethan Kross, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, has found that when people use ...

Dr. Pamela Rutledge, Director of the Media Psychology Research Center, discusses why people love predictable, feel-good holiday movies.

The website Wikipedia describes curiosity as a “quality related to inquisitive thinking, such as exploration, investigation, and learning, evident in humans and other animals.” But there is a lot more ...

Podcast: In this episode, we speak with Patricia Kanngiesser from the University of Plymouth about how children learn to navigate teamwork.

In 2023, 473 million children lived in a conflict zone, according to the Peace Research Institute Oslo. That’s more than one out of every six children worldwide — a number that has nearly doubled ...

They're young and in love. But she's sick, and he's her caregiver, and that means nothing else comes easy....At this age, people typically explore new beliefs, relationships and friendships. It's when ...