After studying nearly 6,000 people, researchers discovered that "cool" people share remarkably similar traits worldwide.

To examine racial representation in psychological research, Roberts and his Stanford research team—Carmelle Bareket-Shavit, Forrest A. Dollins, Peter D. Goldie, and Elizabeth Mortenson—looked at more ...

Researchers re-did 100 published psychology studies, and many did not check out. These are three of the studies, and some possible explanations for why they couldn’t be replicated.

A 2008 study, which found that the research in six major psychology journals only rarely examined people outside the West, wryly proposed that a top journal rename itself the "Journal of the ...

A project aims to replicate a year’s worth of studies in three psychology journals. It’s not an attack, but a bid to gauge the reproducibility of published research.

Like a proud cat leaving a bird on its owner's doorstep, orcas—also called killer whales—may sometimes offer to share their ...

Inspired by quarter-century retrospectives, I explored how addiction psychology has changed (or not) over the past 25 years.

A huge, collaborative research project attempted to recreate 100 studies that were recently published in major psychology journals, and it found that only 39 of those studies’ results could be ...

It was one of last year's most astonishing scientific stories: a leading psychology journal accepted a paper presenting evidence for precognition – an ability to perceive future events.

The number of psychology journals that have adopted transparency policies has risen from zero in 2013 to at least 24 now; such policies require scientists to make their work as open as possible so ...

The Journal of Experimental Social Psychology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering social psychology. It is published by Elsevier on behalf of the Society of Experimental Social ...