Anxiety often leads us to assume that people are judging us negatively. For example, you notice someone glancing at you at ...

(2011). Thinking Fast & Slow. UK: Penguin. Kruger, J., & Dunning, D. (1999). Unskilled and unaware of it: how difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments.

Each person is exposed to nearly two million TV advertisements and commercials, on average, each year. That's a dense barrier for marketers to break through to make their ads some of the few that ...

It means, I have a better explanation. Narrator: Phillips Stevens is an expert on what some psychologists call magical thinking. Like when people were in a bad mood say, they got up on the wrong ...

In the mini-series The Power of Negative Thinking, psychology writer Oliver Burkeman has been exploring the virtues of negativity and shows how it can be a surprisingly powerful route to joy ...

In our polarized society, a new study offers hope for the future: Even young children can learn to discuss and argue about meaningful problems in a respectful and productive way. Researchers found ...

"It (mob psychology) is an animal thing. Think of wild beasts crossing the river, they all tell each other to cross without thinking they can drown as they cross. It is an animal thing, where ...

When deciding whether formal coursework in psychology or sociology should be taken, the forward-thinking undergraduate should consider these five reasons why these classes might lead to success on ...

The degree allows students to explore different approaches and subdisciplines within the field, including biological, physiological, clinical, cognitive, developmental, neuroscientific, and social ...