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Understanding the many branches of psychology

By Dr Vasilios SilivistrisPsychology, the scientific study of the mind and behaviour, helps us understand why people think, feel and act the way they do. Because human behaviour is so complex, the ...

Psychology suggests that people who park in reverse aren’t necessarily more successful; in many cases, they’ve simply developed a practical way of anticipating si…

A viral claim making the rounds online says people who back into parking spaces share eight traits that point to success in ...
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Cross-cultural study strengthens link between media violence and aggressive behavior

AMES, Iowa – New research offers compelling evidence that media violence affects aggressive behavior. This first-of-its-kind study, led by Craig Anderson, a Distinguished Professor of psychology at ...
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Want Someone to Change Their Behavior? Psychology Says Nagging Doesn’t Work, but This Mind Trick Does

Making people feel positive about themselves gets better results than negativity. Here’s a common pattern in my house. See if it seems familiar to you. After my husband showers, he often forgets to ...
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Understanding Behavior via the ToK System

Psychologists use the term behavior all the time and more than one current textbook defines psychology as the science of behavior. Yet there is enormous and ongoing confusion regarding what, exactly, ...

What happens when men don't feel 'man enough'?

A research team led by Lea Lorenz of the RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau and Sven Kachel of the University of Kassel ...
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What do genes have to do with psychology? They likely influence your behavior more than you realize

Whether genes are able to compromise between their competing interests can have consequences for development. pressureUA/iStock via Getty Images Plus As a species, humans like to think that we are ...

Psychology suggests that people who move a shopping cart out of the aisle without being asked are not only more polite, but have often developed a subtle form of social ...

One cart sits sideways in the middle of the aisle, someone stops to compare labels, and suddenly a simple grocery run turns into a tiny traffic jam. But the opposite moment stands out too. A shopper ...