Topic: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Single Bridezillas

Kat Richter, 26, a single writer and teaching artist in Philadelphia, has, like many women, dreamed about her wedding day since she was a teenager ...
Seeking More Data: The FDA wants more information about an experimental diabetes drug from Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca before considering...
In the great tradition of "No Scrubs," "Single Ladies" and "Gold Digger," The University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management has found...

Do Men Flash Cash to Find a Mate?

Print E-mail When women seem scarce, men may compete for them by being impulsive, saving less and borrowing more, according to a new study.. ...
Are you the type of girl who has a list of traits you're looking for in your ideal man? Six foot or taller, dark hair, blue eyes, creative...

Believers view atheists as untrustworthy: study

Religious people distrust the world's estimated 500 million atheists as much as rapists, a study found Friday in the wake of a poll that said less than half of Americans would vote for an atheist president."Where there are religious majorities ...
Creative people may be able to write well, sing like angels, and paint like the impressionists--but they may also be more likely to lie and cheat...

What is the planning fallacy

Constantly, psychology is revealing that people have habits that aren't particularly beneficial in our everyday life. Although it's difficult whether the cause is genetic or cultural, both, or something else, the planning fallacy is just another example of am inconvenient ...

Why couples end up sounding alike

We all know them. People in couples who use language so similarly you'd be forgiven for thinking you're in a conversation with a pair of parrots. A new study in the US has found that people in relationships imitate each ...

That's Nice, Now Get Out

It's no surprise that humans dislike greediness. But a study in the August issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that people sometimes punish generosity, too.