Left-handers are better at some types of sports than right-handers. But are they also more competitive? A new study says yes.

As social media becomes the core domain of information interaction in the era of big data, the emotional information contained in the vast amount of user-generated content provides an unprecedented ...

Psychological science has never been more societally relevant, says APS President James Pennebaker in his third presidential column.

Teaching: Why are U.S. middle-aged adults experiencing increasingly high levels of loneliness and depression? A three-part lesson brings this cutting-edge research into the classroom.

Many studies suggest that pets make their owners happier, but a new high-quality study found a different result ...

The findings are based on Prosper’s 23-year continuous monthly survey of over 7,500 nationally representative U.S. adults. While the dataset spans more than two decades, this analysis focuses on the ...