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For years, scientists have debated how best to assess brain levels of oxytocin, a hormone implicated in social behaviors.

How does an individual’s happiness level reflect societal conditions? A new article in the first issue of Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (PIBBS) finds that similar to how GDP…

Everyone knows the scene: a basketball player at the free throw line, bouncing the ball as he concentrates on the basket. It’s a tight game, and his team needs this point.

We celebrate our triumphs over adversity, but let’s face it: We’d rather not experience difficulty at all.

Through the ages, women have suffered greatly because of wars. Consequently, to protect themselves and their offspring, our female ancestors may have evolved survival strategies specific to problems…

The practical steps required to implement culture change in the NHS is the subject of a new report launched Thursday 6 November 2014, by the British Psychological Society’s (BPS) Division of…

What we believed as children about the soul and the afterlife shapes what we believe as adults – regardless of what we say we believe now, according to a new Rutgers study.

Women who have been previously hospitalized for bipolar disorder are nearly twice as likely to have premature babies compared to women without a history of mental illness, according to a new study by…

Happiness nose dives as you hit middle age – but only if you live in affluent Western countries, latest research suggests.

A new online tool will further aid studies into postnatal brain growth in human infants based on the similarities seen in the development of the piglet brain. Through a cooperative effort, multi-disciplinary researchers have developed a magnetic resona…