A large study of children reveals that the supposed gender gap in risk-taking vanishes when economists account for cognitive ...

Partnered people tend to be more satisfied with their lives than singles, but a study of more than 380,000 adults in Great ...

People who scored higher on a creative drawing test tended to have stronger white matter in pathways tied to movement and ...

Spiritual doubts are linked to higher anxiety in college students, but a new study finds that cultivating patience for ...

When the brain rests after learning, it actively replays recent experiences. A new brain imaging study reveals this mental ...

Feminist scholars have long argued that anti-fat stigma is rooted in sexism. But when researchers asked fat women directly, ...

Women are often thought to compete through gossip and exclusion rather than fists. But an analysis of ethnographic records ...

The more disordered a person’s brain activity became during their first psilocybin trip, the more their well-being tended to ...

Following a brain injury, specialized progenitor cells produce a stress-related neuropeptide that prevents neighboring cells ...

How much time children spend on screens may matter less than many assume. In a Scottish study following thousands of children ...

Are people who stay single doomed to unhappiness? An 11-year study of German singles suggests not: about 90 percent ...

A metabolic byproduct of gut bacteria can damage the blood-brain barrier and drive the formation of Alzheimer's-related ...