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Trying to solve a long-standing mystery about what the brain is doing when it's doing nothing.

Wash your hands, wash your mind: recover optimism, feel less guilty, less doubtful and more...

This thought made people more confident and boosted their performance.

The effects of this parental behaviour were still detectable when the offspring were 42-years-old.

Three positive mental aspects of playing video games.

Many people would say their emotions only come when they will and not when they want.

Why people consistently misread the mood of dogs.

Mind wandering is experienced as a kind of zoning out from what is going on around us.

Are you building castles in the sky? Psychologists have found that fantasising about future success can be dangerous.

Between 20 and 50 percent of Americans suffer from acute insomnia.

Discover how the anchoring bias influences your decisions and learn practical strategies to reduce its impact in daily life and professional settings.

In psychology experiment one man shocked himself 190 times rather than sit doing nothing.

Discover the types of play and their role in child development. Learn how different play activities foster social, physical, and cognitive skills.

People are more likely to watch an obviously bad movie to the end if they paid $10 to see it, compared with when it is free. Why?

Personality is the pattern of thoughts, feelings and behaviours that characterise a person.

Working memory is vital to holding pieces of visual, verbal or other information in your mind while you manipulate them.

Feeling lonely is a part of some people's genetic makeup.

Alzheimer's causes degeneration in part of the brain that controls this function first.

Wise people are humble, recognise that the world is in flux and that people have different views that need to be integrated.

Seven steps to a more meaningful life includes meditation, movement and maximisation.

Just one portion has the same positive effect as going for a walk on 8 extra days a month.

These are three factors that you can change.

Discover the shocking details of the Stanford Prison Experiment, a controversial study revealing how power and roles influence human behaviour.

This personality trait can be boosted using simple exercises.

It helps to provide emotional balance by regulating heart rhythms. It also encourages ecstasy and wonder, as well as joy and calm.

Two-thirds of Americans struggle with their weight.

Four personality factors are linked to high intelligence.

Discover depression signs, the science of antidepressants and the very best treatments. Get more in PsyBlog's latest depression posts.

Are your thoughts distorting reality? Learn the techniques that can calm anxious thoughts and ease emotional distress.

The technique that reduces the number of headaches people suffer by almost 50 percent.

Study of 3,000+ finds men and women process emotions differently and this affects what they remember.

The vitamin deficiency linked to increased belly fat.

Bacteria related to gum disease can travel from the mouth to the brain.

People who experience a wider range of emotions -- both positive and negative -- are mentally healthier.

There are two factors that help keep long distance relationships alive.

Use this simple gratitude exercise to put yourself in a better mood in as little as two minutes per week.

The one learning technique which works best is the one that students use the least.

The wonderful human behaviour that elevates all our morals.

This parenting strategy leads to children with IQs 6 points higher.

There are different paths to success -- not everyone gets there by the conventional route of following their dreams and being endlessly positive.

Antidepressants are more effective when accompanied by the correct sleep schedule.

The physical sensation of happiness and other emotions revealed by study mapping bodily emotions.

Materialism makes people feel bad about their bodies.

How much control do you have over your emotions?

The 'creatively challenged' -- those not naturally open to new experiences -- can find it hard to come up with novel ideas, but this technique can help.

New sleep centre discovered and neuroscientists succeed in turning it on and off using a virus.

Protein intake can affect how you sleep at night, research finds.

Swiss study finds memory for new words reinforced by listening again during sleep.

The type of sleep linked to feeling more positive emotions.

The unconscious, or gut instinct, can do just as well as a conscious, deliberate decision in the business environment.

Higher intelligence is associated with this personality type.

Love feels magical, but science uncovers the forces shaping who we love, how and why.

Left-handed personality traits and characteristics include an advantage at sports, increased risk of mental illness and more...

Working on self-esteem is not the best way to move on from regrets.

These effects may be reduced by using treatments aimed at improving children's mental health.

When the pulses are timed correctly, they work to 'unstick' the brains of autistic people.

Indulge in this tasty food once a week to reduce your risk of heart disease.

The idea that 93 percent of communication is nonverbal is a myth deriving from studies by Albert Mehrabian and others.

Potential new treatment for Alzheimer's and other cognitive disorders.

One-in-five young men may have 'bigorexia': an anxiety disorder that drives them to bulk up.

The conscious mind may hamper our abilities to detect lying.

The psychological traits linked to achieving old age.

Kent Berridge at the University of Michigan has carried out some interesting research into the emotional unconscious.

What is considered a high IQ and why does it matter?

Stress affects memory negatively through the action of cortisol, the stress hormone.

From marketers and social media to politicians and the powerful -- everyone wants our attention. Learn how attention works with the latest PsyBlog posts about...

A simple technique to help narcissists develop more fellow-feeling.

Women were shown faces morphed to have more or less of three dangerous character traits.

A team of psychologists at the University of Illinois have been investigating how driving is affected by simultaneous mobile phone use. Previous research has...

Explore the secret to happiness in these breath-taking environments.

Short-term memory is what is in your mind right now while long-term memory is what gets stored away for days, months or years.

Introspection is difficult for people, which means we know surprisingly little about our own personalities, attitudes and even self-esteem.

Short of sleep? Your memory could be playing serious tricks on you.

A new study shows how much visual input the brain processes, but we never consciously see.

Eating carrots, wearing red, how to walk sexy and more...

Elderly people low in this vitamin were more than twice as likely to develop dementia.

How to spot a narcissist from their online behaviour.

Prepare for an interview the scientific way with these 10 tips straight from psychological research on schmoozing, mental imagery and more...

Fewer than 1 in 10 people achieve their resolutions, research finds.

A simple phrase could unknowingly instil lifelong social anxiety.

Some favourite examples of psychobabble - technical psychological terms used out of context.

The brain does not begin to slow down at age 20, after all.

An infant's very first step in their year-long journey to their first word is perhaps their most impressive.

People have a romantic type, study demonstrates.

Your intelligence could influence how much alcohol you consume.

The personality trait is linked to cardiometabolic risk factors such as high blood pressure, obesity, bodily inflammation and high cholesterol.

Yawning and laughter are famously contagious but can you guess the others?

It may be effective because it helps to regulate glucose levels.

Science finds an app can outperform usual care for depression.