Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University, and University of Southern California report that exclamation point use is widely read as feminine and shapes impressions of warmth, ...

The MCAT paved the way for other standardized admission exams, like the SAT, and the many sleepless nights college-bound students still endure in preparation. But Moss likely wouldn’t have minded that ...

Teens and young adults who see alcohol promotions in their social media feeds are more likely to drink and binge drink, according to a Rutgers Health review of 31 studies that tracked links between ...

A large new study reveals how early relationships with parents and friends influence how we relate to those closest to us in adulthood ...

Bluesky is experimenting with a dislike button and changes to replies as a way to improve the quality of interactions on its platform.

Once hailed as a social experiment about genuine connection, Love Is Blind now mirrors the influencer economy it once ...

A classic social-psychology study left out culture and so suffers from bias. Adult Halloween fears have more to do with ...

Chimpanzees may have more in common with human thinkers than previously thought. A new study published in Science by an international team of researchers provides evidence that chimpanzees can ...

One of my favourite social psychology/social cognition studies is what I have come to refer to as the trick-or-treat study. Specifically, I’m talking about the research conducted by Diener and ...

Perhaps nowhere is this more clear than when it comes to conspiracy theories: Many people believe that you can’t talk conspiracists out of their beliefs. But that’s not necessarily true. It turns out ...

It’s a popular example of the “Mandela effect,” or a collective false memory. And while some people may laugh and move on, ...