A six-month study found that depressive symptoms and day-to-day emotional instability are linked to decreased sexual desire ...

People who are prone to worry and negative emotions often say they sleep less. A new study suggests that may reflect how they ...

Telling Americans how harmful alcohol and tobacco really are reduced their support for keeping those substances legal. But ...

A large clinical trial tracked nearly 50,000 postmenopausal women for two decades to see if a low-fat diet could prevent ...

People may reward intelligence for what it can do for the group rather than for its own sake. A new study found that the link ...

As traditional religious affiliations decline, supernatural beliefs are not vanishing. A new survey reveals that people who ...

Most research on social media and depression has focused on teenagers. A new analysis of more than 183,000 American adults ...

Americans in interracial relationships had 37% greater odds of leaning liberal than those with same-race partners. The ...

Childhood maltreatment comes in many forms, and a new brain imaging study suggests those forms aren’t interchangeable.

Nearly one in five women seeking psychiatric help for anxiety or depression also meet the criteria for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to new research highlighting how overlapping ...

Psychology’s replication problems drew wide attention after 2015. A new study in Nature suggests the challenge is not unique ...

Fear tends to involve possible danger ahead, while horror often follows learning about something that shouldn’t happen. A new ...