Harvard University Psychological Scientists have investigated what happens in the brain when we are faced with the social pressure to conform.

A new study by Rimma Teperr, Michael Inzlicht, and Elizabeth Page-Gould of the University of Toronto has investigated the mismatch between what people say they would do in moral dillemas and what they actually do. They claim that the differences are due to emotions and people are often more moral in their actions than the think they will be. The findings are published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association of Psychological Science

Women are better at forgiveness than men, according to a new study from Spain.

Past research has shown that people are attracted to opposite sex partners who look like them and have similar personalities and values. Now new research has shown that we are also attracted to people who talk like us. The researchers also have a webpage where you can test your compatibility by cutting and pasting your emails, texts and Instant Messages.

Practising exam questions is a much better way of preparing for examinations than rereading and reviewing notes, according to a new study by Jeffrey Karpicke and Janell Blunt from Purdue University. They also found that most students are not very good at judging which methods work best for them.

Just 8 weeks of mindfulness meditation is enough to change the structure of areas of the brain associated with memory, empathy, self-awareness and stress, according to a new study. The findings provide additional support for recent findings that mindfulness meditation provides significant measurable benefits.

New research by a team of psychologists from Canada, Belgium, and the United States shows there is more than a literal truth to the saying that ‘you never get a second chance to make a first impression’. The findings suggest that new experiences that contradict a first impression become ‘bound’ to the context in which they were made. As a result, the new experiences influence people’s reactions only in that particular context, whereas first impressions still dominate in other contexts.

The higher a person lives, the greater the risk that they will commit suicide according to a new study of twenty years of mortality data from across the United States.

Characters such as Rapunzel in “Tangled,” Ariel in “The Little Mermaid,” and Belle in “Beauty and the Beast” are portrayed as beautiful and good. Now a new study has examined whether the stereotype of beautiful equals good, portrayed in these stories and films, has an effect on children's choice of friends.

Women who have partners without macho looks fantasise about more masculine looking men when they are in the most fertile stage of their menstrual cycle, according to new research. However, those already with manly-looking partners do not become more attracted to them.