A new study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin suggests that people consistently underestimate how much influence they have over their romantic partners and friends. This ...

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Normally a mini-essay by a journeyman reporter for the New York Times would not be worth rebutting with another mini-essay. We can all agree that the world has quite enough mini-essays as it is. But ...

In light of an estimated replication rate of only 36% out of 100 replication attempts conducted by the Open Science Collaboration in 2015 (OSC2015), many believe that experimental psychology suffers ...

There is an open secret in the study of child development: Most of what we think we know about how babies develop is actually based on a specific subset of kids—those born to families from Western, ...

Adolescents find social media to be the most authentic media form, according to a new Center for Scholars and Storytellers at UCLA study. CSS, an adolescent-centered research group within the ...

We’re wired to move together—not alone. New research shows exercising in sync—from yoga classes to team sports—boosts mood, ...

Focus of teaching and scholarship: I am a clinical psychologist whose research explores the intersection of personality and psychopathology. Most recently, I have been working to elucidate underlying ...

Why Wundt is known as the father of psychology ...