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Shifting Blame is Socially Contagious

New study from University of Southern California and Stanford University finds blame spreads rapidly.

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Five Tips for Surviving the Holidays

Dr. Jonathan Abramowitz, an expert in anxiety disorders and professor of psychiatry and psychology in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine and College of Arts & Sciences, offers five tips for coping with holiday-related stress.

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Coaches Can Shape Young Athletes' Definition of Success

Young athletes’ achievement goals can change in a healthy way over the course of a season when their coaches create a mastery motivational climate rather than an ego orientation.

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Ending the 'Endless Adolescence': Psychologists Tell How in New Book

Parental nurturing is backfiring, and as a result a generation of teens is growing up less independent, less skilled at common tasks – from doing laundry to choosing college classes – and increasingly unprepared for adulthood. "We call it 'the Nurture Paradox,'" University of Virginia clinical psychologists Joseph Allen and Claudia Worrell Allen write in their new book, "Escaping the Endless Adolescence: How to Help Our Teenagers Grow Up Before They Grow Old."

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Sleep Deprivation Negatively Affects Split-Second Decision Making

Sleep deprivation adversely affects automatic, accurate responses and can lead to potentially devastating errors, a finding of particular concern among firefighters, police officers, soldiers and others who work in a sleep-deprived state, University of Texas at Austin researchers say.

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African-American Children Cope Well With Behavioral Risks

An eight-year study of African-American, white and Hispanic-American children in three regions of the United States has found that African-Americans had the highest level of exposure to risk factors that could lead to behavioral problems, but do not engage in bad behavior at higher rates than the other two groups.

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The Narrow Line Between Love and Jealousy

A new study carried out at the University of Haifa has found that the oxytocin hormone, known as the "love hormone", also affects antisocial behaviors, such as jealousy and gloating.

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New Study Sheds Light on Brain's Response to Distress, Unexpected Events

In a new study, psychologists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) are able to see in detail for the first time how various regions of the human brain respond when people experience an unexpected or traumatic event. The study could lead to the creation of biological measures that could identify people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or identify PTSD sufferers who would benefit from specific treatments.

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The Role of Parental Control in the West and East Asia

Recent studies investigating the question of parental control in the West and in East Asian countries suggest that extreme meddling by parents can have negative effects on their children’s psychological development in both of those regions, although the effects may not be uniform.

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