A new study suggests women who feel more positive about their genitals find it easier to orgasm and are more likely to engage in ...

Perhaps some parents can relax a little as a new study finds that children who push the rules are more likely to ...

The contrast between social isolation and social support, including the role each can play in the biology of disease and health outcomes, is the subject of ...

A new research effort has come to the conclusion that bipolar disorder, traditionally thought of as a chronic disorder, may dissipate as young adults ...

A new University of Michigan study has a surprising twist as researchers discover U.S. life expectancy increased by 6.2 years during the Great Depression. Life expectancy rose from 57.1 years in 1929 to 63.3 years in 1932, according to the analysis by U-M ...

Research has long suggested that people can unconsciously pick up on subliminal information intended to provoke an emotional response. A new study published in the journal Emotion provides evidence that people are able to process emotional information from subliminal images. Moreover, scientists ...

The debate between biology and society has turned another chapter as a new study examines the link between psychosis and creativity. The quest to determine if personality is based on heredity has raged for centuries given the behavior of van Gogh, Nietzsche, ...

In times of stress the function and quality of social relationships are important safeguards to help individuals through difficult times. New research suggests parents in low-income environments are more prone to depression when there is a lack of social support. As reported ...

New research suggests certain psychological characteristics may aid individuals in their quest to lose weight while other traits may complicate the task. Surprisingly, being too optimistic could harm weight loss efforts. However, individuals who were able to improve their self-awareness ...

A doctoral dissertation by a Finnish investigator studied the root cause of violence in an effort to better predict future episodes of violent behavior. Roope Tikkanen, MD, analyzed the risk factors of violent reconvictions of 242 Finnish men who suffered from alcoholism and ...