Psych Majors

An aspiring doctor has filed a lawsuit against a New Jersey medical school, claiming he was harrassed and suspended for identifying himself as a white African-American.(this article is basically an addendum to a story submitted earlier)

It was the last day of shooting for a Pepsi commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in 1984, and the only hiccup had been an argument between Michael Jackson and an ad executive over whether the young superstar would take off his sunglasses.

A small new study suggests we're wired to appreciate beautiful babies more than unattractive ones, but does that say anything about our ability to parent?

Britons should have plenty to smile about on Friday June 19 as it's officially the happiest day of 2009.

It was bound to happen. We share a mountain of information on Twitter, some of it very personal, and it was only a matter of time before someone built an engine to analyze that content and turn it into psychological profiles.

The mental health community is updating their "bible"; the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and they propose adding a new mental disorder to this reference book, Post-Traumatic Embitterment Disorder (PTED)

Self-help books say "be yourself." They also say "be interested in others." For me, it's one or the other.

Many millenniums flowers personify beauty at people, pleasure and perfection of the nature.

The placebo effect has an evil twin – the nocebo effect – which can make you think yourself ill, or even dead.

It's not that antidepressants like Prozac don't work at all -- just that several studies suggest they're not quite the panacea they were cracked up to be.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, researchers from CalTech have identified the structures in the brain that play a key role in desire and self-control during decision making.

Weeks before his death, Gabriel Myers, the 7-year-old Broward boy who hanged himself in the shower of his foster home, had been prescribed a powerful mind-altering drug linked by federal regulators to an increased risk of suicide in children.

Growing up poor isn't merely hard on kids. It might also be bad for their brains. A long-term study of cognitive development in lower and middle-class students found strong links between childhood poverty, physiological stress, and adult memory.

Drawing from computer science, math, sociology, and other disciplines, researchers are starting to figure out how those branching thickets of human social networks are shaping our tastes, our purchases, how we vote, and even our health and happiness.

Psychologists have now found out that taking some time to interact with nature, even in cold weather, can make you a bit smarter.

New York, NY - A new analysis has found that major depression predicted cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in women participating in the Nurses' Health Study [1]. The hazard ratios were strongest for fatal events and were driven by the association...

Some of the experiments psychologists have conducted over the years reveal things about the way we humans think and behave that we might not want to embrace, but which can at least help keep us humble.

A recession is a peculiarly fertile breeding-ground for paranoia. Co-workers can suddenly seem like rivals and threats. After all, if someone has to leave their job, naturally your colleagues would rather it was you, wouldn't they?