Does Volunteering Improve Psychological Well-being? Should we prescribe volunteering to improve people’s mental health?
Perceived Scientific Consensus as a Gateway to Bridging the Climate Change Divide When scientists affirm the existence of climate change, the public becomes less skeptical about it.
Why You Shouldn’t Tell Your Kids They’re Smart or Talented If you want your kids to become great at something, the last thing you should do is to keep telling them they’re great at something.
Ingredients for Conflict: Why We Get so Angry When People Disagree with Us Why spending time in opinion echo chambers leads people to be angry when others disagree with them.
Nostalgia: A Trip Down Memory Lane, and Back Nostalgia not only brings back pleasant memories of the past, but it can promote our well-being in the present.
Vicarious Discrimination: When Discrimination Hurts More than Just the Victim Discrimination affects not only people who are discriminated against but also their partners and relationships.
The Negative Spiral of Religious Intolerance Experiencing threats based on one’s religion is associated with greater animosity toward other groups.
Your Present Self is Your Best Future Self, According to New Research Predicting similarity over time is strongly related to happiness later on in life according to new study appearing in Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Why Does Joe Biden Touch People So Much and Why Do We Care? Former Vice President Joe Biden has always been a physically affectionate man, but recently that touching has become controversial.