Conducted in 1919-1920, a nine-month-old baby was subject to a conditioning experiment to make him fear certain animals. Carried out by psychologist John B. Watson and his grad student Rosalie Rayner, ...

A social media influencer conducted a social experiment to test street vendors’ honesty, and the results surprised many.

The authors acknowledge that memories are malleable and can have harmful consequences. Along with many other psychologists, ...

Bridget Jones dates younger men in a new hit rom-com movie, but is this just a romantic fantasy, or does research into attractiveness measure just how possible this might be?

Research has shown that adults instinctively think of men when asked to think of a person -- they describe the most 'typical' person they can imagine as male and assume storybook characters without a ...

F ifteen years ago, social psychology was in its pomp ... The idea that human beings are little more than living automatons is an old one, going back at least to the philosophe Julien Offray ...

Our ability to cooperate with others may be influenced by how our attention is captured and directed, as much as by how ...

Feedback would like to bring to readers' attention the retraction of five psychology articles by Nicolas Guéguen, including a ...

A study conducted by researchers at Arizona State University suggests that humans often misinterpret dogs' emotions based on ...

When a relationship ends, the extra space in your life is the perfect opportunity to focus on self-care. Now is the time to ...

People start developing unhealthy perceptions of their own bodies in early childhood, a new study suggests.Kids as y ...