Does living somewhere with lots of social freedom change whose worldview you share? New research suggests it does, mostly by ...

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

A small pilot study found that a high dose of psilocybin strengthened an illusion in which a striped pattern looks fainter ...

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 ...

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 ...

Americans evaluate major political events through a deeply polarized lens. A new study finds that intense dislike of political opponents and differing beliefs about what threatens democracy warp how ...

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 ...

An experiment comparing musicians and nonmusicians found that musicians tend to be less susceptible to the ventriloquism effect. When a sound came from one location and a visual flash from another, ...