Advocating for unrestricted freedom of speech is not always driven by democratic ideals. A new psychological study finds that ...

Psilocybin, LSD, and 2C-B all act on the same serotonin receptor, so they are often treated as a single drug class. But brain ...

Streaming digital jazz might do more than provide background noise. New research shows that algorithm-curated jazz playlists ...

Researchers expected awe to make people more open to diversity. Instead, in a study of nearly 3,200 adults, a short happy ...

Teenagers who overuse smartphones often struggle to manage their own learning later on. A new longitudinal study reveals that ...

Using genetic test results to guide antidepressant prescriptions did not improve depression symptoms after 3 months in a ...

A large study of children reveals that the supposed gender gap in risk-taking vanishes when economists account for cognitive ...

During a deep, self-induced trance, practitioners say their bodies move on their own, their sense of time vanishes, and the boundary between self and world blurs. A small new study found these ...

Partnered people tend to be more satisfied with their lives than singles, but a study of more than 380,000 adults in Great ...

Women are often thought to compete through gossip and exclusion rather than fists. But an analysis of ethnographic records ...

Feminist scholars have long argued that anti-fat stigma is rooted in sexism. But when researchers asked fat women directly, ...

The more disordered a person’s brain activity became during their first psilocybin trip, the more their well-being tended to ...