The Upside of Climate Pessimism
Optimism doesn't always lead to action on climate change, whereas pessimistic outlooks can sometimes help.
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Social-Behavioral Findings Can Be Highly Replicable, Six-Year Study by Four Labs Suggests
Social-Behavioral Findings Can Be Highly Replicable, Six-Year Study by Four Labs Suggests
Four coordinated laboratories discovered and replicated 16 novel findings with ostensibly gold standard best practices.
Why is the American Right Suddenly So Interested in Psychedelic Drugs?
Magic mushrooms are no magic cure for society's ills, and a substance as powerful as psychedelics can be dangerous if it falls into the wrong hands
The Psychology of Epiphanies
You might have been told off for staring out the window at school, but psychology shows us it's one of the best ways to spark new ideas and have epiphanies.
The Future of Spycraft
If intelligence analysis is to improve, we must learn from our new understanding of cognitive bias.
I Didn't Know My Mind Was So Strange Until I Started Listening to It
I took part in an experiment to decipher my inner thoughts.
The New Superstition
Every era has its myths and rituals, doomed to seem absurd to future generations. Today, we believe in psychology.
Despite Climate, War and Covid, is Everything Actually … Getting Better?
The psychologist Steven Pinker has long believed we should be more optimistic - and even current crises do not dissuade him.
How Social Media Influences Public Attitudes to COVID-19 Governance Policy
How Social Media Influences Public Attitudes to COVID-19 Governance Policy
Examining how social media affects the public cognitive and affective factors further influences their attitudes towards COVID-19 governance policy.
The Psychology Behind Why We Believe in Horoscopes
Ever wondered why so many people believe in horoscopes? Have you ever believed them yourself? Turns out, the better we understand our attraction to quack science, the better we can avoid falling victim to it.
Long distance ski racing is associated with lower long-term incidence of depression in a population based, large-scale study
Long distance ski racing is associated with lower long-term incidence of depression in a population based, large-scale study
Physical activity has been proposed to be beneficial for prevention of depression, although the importance of exercise intensity, sex-specific mechanisms, and duration of the effects need to be clarified. Using an observational study design, following 395,369 individuals up to 21 years it was studied whether participation in an ultralong-distance cross-country ski race was associated with lower risk of developing depression.
Psychedelics Can Change Humanity for the Better. It's Time to Unlock Their Power
Studies of MDMA, ketamine, psilocybin mushrooms and other psychedelics have shown tremendous potential for therapeutic applications
It's Not Irrational to Party Like It's 1999
Must we always follow reason? Do I need a rational argument for why I should fall in love, cherish my children, enjoy the pleasures…
Study Finds Psilocybin Can Relieve Depression, but Raises Warning Flags
The largest psilocybin treatment trial to date suggests that the psychedelic drug can help people with treatment-resistant depression.
Facial Expressions Tell All (if You Can Read Them)
If the eyes are the window to your soul, the face is the frame. Facial expressions may say more about you than you realize. Even neutral expressions do.
How Misconduct Helped Psychological Science to Thrive
How Misconduct Helped Psychological Science to Thrive
Grass-roots action against bad behaviour has spurred reform - and should keep going.
Everyone Maps Numbers in Space. But Why Don't We All Use the Same Directions?
The debate over whether number lines are innate or learned obscures a more fundamental question: Why do we map numbers to space in the first place?
'No One Wanted to Read' His Book on Pandemic Psychology - then Covid Hit
Australian psychologist Steven Taylor published what would turn out to be a prophetic book, and it has become like a Lonely Planet guide to the pandemic.
How the Strange Idea of 'statistical Significance' Was Born
A mathematical ritual known as null hypothesis significance testing has led researchers astray since the 1950s.
What Science Has to Say About Talking to Yourself in Lockdown
When none of the usual people are around to have a conversation with, 'private speech' can be helpful as well as fun, says psychologist Charles Fernyhough
Psychedelics Open a New Window on the Mechanisms of Perception
Everything became imbued with a sense of vitality and life and vividness. If I picked up a pebble from the beach, it would move.
TED Talks Won't Treat Your Depression
A myopic but seductive worldview has caught on among many influential people - and it might be hindering our ability to solve real-world problems.
A study of the determinants of psychologists' data sharing and open data badge adoption
A study of the determinants of psychologists' data sharing and open data badge adoption
This study examines psychologists' motivations to share data and how to better promote psychologists' data sharing and open data badge adoption.
Research Proves It: There's No Such Thing As Noblesse Oblige
To understand how money affects politics, we need to understand how money affects psychology.
Replicability, Robustness, and Reproducibility in Psychological Science
Replicability, Robustness, and Reproducibility in Psychological Science
Replication, an important, uncommon, and misunderstood practice, is making a comeback in psychology.
Researchers Crack Question of Whether Couples Start Looking Alike
Study instead suggests people are initially attracted to those with similar features to themselves.
Facts V Feelings: How to Stop Our Emotions Misleading Us
Facts V Feelings: How to Stop Our Emotions Misleading Us
The pandemic has shown how a lack of solid statistics can be dangerous. But even with the firmest of evidence, we often end up ignoring the facts we don't like.
Can A Research Accelerator Solve The Psychology Replication Crisis?
The Psychological Science Accelerator isn't the only project seeking to address the reproducibility problem. But the accelerator is unique in two ways. First, collaborators plan to continue to work on large-scale efforts indefinitely. And second, the accelerator isn't necessarily limited to replication studies, opening it to novel and exploratory work.
University Finds Dozens of Papers by Late - and Controversial - Psychologist Hans Eysenck "unsafe"
University Finds Dozens of Papers by Late - and Controversial - Psychologist Hans Eysenck "unsafe"
Hans Eysenck More than two dozen papers by a controversial psychologist who died in 1997 are "unsafe."
An Intimate Insight on Psychopathy and a Novel Hermeneutic Psychological Science
An Intimate Insight on Psychopathy and a Novel Hermeneutic Psychological Science
This paper is rather a profound hermeneutic enunciation putting into question our present understanding of psychopathy. It further articulates, in complement, a novel theoretical and methodological conceptualisation for a hermeneutic psychological science.
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