Psychology

Christmas can be hard. For some people, it increases loneliness, grief, hopelessness and family tension, and the festive season has a way of turning ordinary concerns into urgent ones. Not because something terrible is guaranteed to happen, but because mo ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 20 2025 - 4:31am

Blood Pressure Medication Adherence May Not Be Cost, It May Be Annoyance At Defensive Medicine

High blood pressure is an important risk factor for developing cardiovascular disease and premature death. Medication can reduce those risks so it makes sense that if someone is prescribed an angiotensin receptor blocker like Losartan continue to take it. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 22 2025 - 11:56am

Why Do We Start Counting With Our Left Hand?

The majority of people prefer to start counting on their left hand, regardless of whether they are left- or right-handed, found a recent set of experiments. In a subsequent odd-even task, the left-starters had more consistent spatial-numerical associations ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 29 2025 - 9:36am

Word Association Can Predict Your Next Break Up

Using an implicit task, scholars used two experiments, how people automatically responded to words, to predict break-ups. They showed it was easier to link words referring to their partner to words with pleasant or unpleasant meanings, a harbinger of coupl ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2026 - 12:04pm

Four Different Ways Couples Show They Care

Want to suck all of the fun out of romance and dating? Talk with a humanities scholar in family dating research. Just in time for Valentine's Day, a University of Illinois academic has identified four distinct approaches that dating couples use to d ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2026 - 12:58pm

Primary Mate Ejection Now Commencing: We're Hard-Wired To Get Over It

Had a break up and finding it difficult to move on? It's an evolutionary mandate, according to a review of evolutionary psychology articles on romantic break-ups. People are hardwired to fall out of love and move onto new romantic relationships, the a ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2026 - 1:06pm

I Earned It, You're Privileged- The Paradox In How We View Achievement

The concept of “hard work v privilege”, and what either one says about someone’s social status, is an important one. Politicians regularly draw dividing lines between “hardworking families” and those receiving “handouts”. Others distinguish between those ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 12 2026 - 2:14pm

Scholars Who Got Sold On The Academic Life Feel The Pressure

Professor Peter Mitchell got a Nobel Prize in 1978 for a chemiosmotic hypothesis of how ATP is made. Basically, how mitochondria turn fat, protein, and sugar into energy. Like most science, his breakthrough was built on 70 years of work by people before hi ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 27 2026 - 4:30am

Valentine's Day Psychology Advice: Women Like Men Who...

I just got back from a vacation in Hawaii and for the entire time, I had laryngitis, or some sort of thing that made me unable to talk and my throat sore. So I could not speak. I tell you, I have never been so attractive to my wife, even though she married ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 7 2026 - 9:35am

Theory Of Mind Is Wrong About Autistic People

For four decades, a controversial idea has shaped how autism is understood by researchers, healthcare professionals and the public: the claim that autistic people are “mind blind”. The phrase suggests an inability to grasp what others think or feel. It is ...

Article - The Conversation - Mar 1 2026 - 4:33am