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Image via  Roy Blumenthal/Flickr Reading what other people are feeling is an important skill that helps us navigate conflicts, deepen re...

Image via Flickr This is Episode Seven of PsychCrunch, the podcast from the British Psychological Society's Research Digest, spo...

Being watched encourages us to be nicer people – what psychologists call behaving “pro-socially”. Recent evidence has suggested this effe...

When viewing a film genre that supposedly “matches” our gender, we build up stronger memory “schema” Psychology research has shown that ...

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According to Hollywood stereotypes, there are the clever, nerdy young people who spend most of their time sitting around thinking and read...

The message from recent surveys is that it's not just people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia who hear voices in their heads, many pe...

Just as Paul Simon sang about 50 ways to leave your lover, a new study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology suggests there ar...

In a sense we're all amateur psychologists – we've got our own first-hand experience at being human, and we've spent years obser...

In the 1950s, the American psychologist Harry Harlow famously showed that infant rhesus monkeys would rather cling to a surrogate wire mot...