An Australian study has come up with results that some people will find very reassuring: Being a sad grump is good. It makes you more alert, less gullible, and improves memory functions. Snarl healthily, and read on.

The human mind may be a very unlikely place to go looking for meaning, but that’s exactly what one of humanity’s most humorless sciences has done. Yes, psychology has found a use for Lewis Carroll-like weirdness.

A new government survey finds that autism rates among children in the U.S. have doubled since 2003. The findings yield more questions than answers.

Anxiety doesn’t mean you’re a hypochondriac. But many feel it’s “abnormal”, as well as extremely unpleasant. The good news is that studies have shown evidence that this unwanted ability to worry about everything has a physiological basis.

A new study conducted by one of North America's foremost child psychology experts suggests that children who are not spanked will grow up to have higher IQs than those who are.

In a five-year study published in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, researchers conclude that 15 per cent of infants and preschoolers have symptoms of depression and anxiety.

Good news for those of us who are gloomy. A new study finds that bad moods brought on by cloudy weather may actually sharpen the mind.

Are the psychotic monsters in the office and business created by praise? Could be, if a British expert is right. “Boosting self esteem” is creating middle aged brats, thanks to psychological techniques being misused by amateurs.

The annual British Crime Survey of recent years has shown increasing use of different drugs by British citizens ranging from 16 to 59 age groups. It is not easy to clearly bring out the addicts and recreational users through such anonymous surveys.

For quite some time, work relationships being kept separate from home life have been an issue in the area of extra-marital affairs. But what about having a purely platonic "office spouse?" Some interesting psychology reveals controversial beliefs.

Women have the real ability of detecting the intention of a male by simply smelling him. That's what been stated by some leading U.S. researchers.

The science of marketing is discovering consumer preferences. Many marketing psychologists prefer to think they control consumer concepts, but in practice, the marketing industry hasn’t been able to even find Generation Y for years.

Experts analyze the shopping mentality this holiday season and the prognosis is much different than simple greed-driven trolls. The basic emotion of survival is now being given some greater weight in what turns otherwise good shoppers bad.

In this interesting study, an international team of German and American researchers unravel why horror movies make some scream while others laugh.

A pair of princeton psychology researchers have developed a computer program that allows scientists to understand better than ever, what it is that makes you trust who you trust and fear who you fear.

The higher an IQ level people have the less likely they are to believe in God. That is the finding of a paper written by Professor Richard Lynn, emeritus professor of psychology at Ulster University that was published by the academic journal Intelligence.

Michael Todd is a psychology professor for Paradise Valley Community College and has been placed on leave after one of his students, 19-year-old Andria Ziegler was found critically ill in his apartment. The student later died.

Men and women enter relationships at a vastly different pace. Women are often seen as coy, while men doting. Dr. Nando Pelusi believes that men and women are both needy and desperate, just at different times in a relationship.

Parents should not worry when their pre-schoolers talk to themselves; in fact, they should encourage it, says Adam Winsler, an associate professor of psychology at George Mason University.

Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem published the claim recently in the Time and Mind journal of philosophy. He says he knows this from his own personal experiences with psychedelic drugs.