Teaching: Use the student activities to teach how prosocial behavior can enhance the giver’s mental and physical health.

In a lot of situations we don’t really notice because it’s already there.” For the paper, Yang and Yilin Liu, now a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Dallas, performed four studies on 4–9 ...

The Ballmer Institute aims to grow the youth behavioral health workforce to increase access to care and improve mental health and well-being for young people nationwide.

The aging brain is often viewed through a lens of cognitive decline, with older adults seen as compensating for their fading memory. New research challenges that view.

The world's fastest-adopted technology is now a fixture of teenage life. We don't yet know what it's doing to the work of growing up.

Dopamine sites play with the notion that much of the pleasure of an indulgence comes from the anticipation of it. In behavioral economic terms, imaginary purchases offer anticipatory utility — the ...

Are you naturally anxious? Highly adventurous? More argumentative than you’d like to admit? The findings, published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, reaffirmed scientists’ understanding that ...