While many people view Valentine’s Day as a nice, relaxing holiday to be spent with a loved one, it is also a holiday that carries a very high potential for stress with it. In general, Valentine’s Day is quite simple: you write a card for someone you love, and perhaps you swing by Marks & Spencer for a bouquet of flowers or a box of chocolates.

What makes people great? Popular theorists such as the New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell and the New York Times' David Brooks argue that intelligence plays a role -- but only up to a point. Beyond that, they say, it's practice, practice, practice.

New research has shed light on why women often gain weight as they get older. It has also hinted on potential therapies to deal with the problem.

Fluctuations of serotonin levels in the brain, which often occur when someone hasn't eaten or is stressed, affects brain regions that enable people to regulate anger, new research from the University of Cambridge has shown.

Fifty Years ago, Stanley Milgram began his controversial investigation into obedience to authority...

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Jisook "April" Park, a Kansas State University doctoral candidate in psychology, is researching consumer decision-making strategies and trying to understand the causes and remedies for post-purchase regret....

Apparently, if you are right handed you will unconsciously associate good things with the right hand side of space and bad things with the left hand side (or vice versa if you are left handed). According to researchers Daniel Casasanto from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Evangelia Chrysikou from the University of Pennsylvania, this preference can be changed by something as simple as wearing a glove on one hand.

A new study published in the Journal of Psychological Science has examined whether self-inflicted pain can reduce feelings of guilt. The results suggest it can.

What should you do when you really, REALLY have to “go”? Make important life decisions, maybe. Controlling your bladder makes you better at controlling yourself when making decisions about your future, too, according to a study to be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.