The burgeoning of research on the dark triad is perhaps unprecedented in psychology. But a new paper explains why it’s ...

The words we say can influence how others receive our message and how they perceive us. Author Stefan Fatsis explores the ...

You may think the mind peaks in your 20s. The data says otherwise. A new open-access analysis in the journal Intelligence reports that overall psychological functioning tends to crest in late midlife, ...

Real self-care helps us manage stress in healthy ways—but some things we turn to for comfort don't fit that bill.

Despite how natural friendship can feel, people rarely stop to analyze it. How do you know when someone will make a good ...

Are you someone who tends to question everything? Analyze information deeply? Look for connections? If this sounds familiar—or perhaps you know someone that we're describing—then it's possible that ...

While the high court earlier found sections of the Sexual Offences Act, as amended, to be invalid to the extent that the Act does not criminalise sexual violence where the perpetrator wrongly believed ...

Being a deaf person, I am acutely aware of the relative 'luck' involved in reaching the point of training as a clinical psychologist – less than 1 per cent of psychology doctoral students report a ...

The time I used to spend on Twitter I now spend on Substack, and my life is much better for it. There are a lot of interesting, eclectic writers in the world. This week, for example, I stumbled across ...

Focused on exploring dark themes and the declining mental state of its characters, psychological horror stays with you for its content, imagery, and delivery. Psychological horror has grown ...

New research suggests that psychological richness—a life of perspective-changing experiences—may matter just as much as happiness or meaning. For centuries, scholars and scientists have defined the ...