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The Surprising Science Behind Why People Underestimate Their Lifespans
When it comes to planning for retirement, and choosing when to start claiming Social Security benefits, one of the key inputs into our decisions is how long we expect to live. Seniors can choose when
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NIH Delays Some Clinical Trials Requirements Imposed Earlier on Basic Behavioral Research
The National Institutes of Health is delaying for two years some of the clinical trials requirements it earlier attempted to impose on basic research.
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Scientists doing basic studies of human brain win longer reprieve from clinical trials reporting rule
U.S. scientists who challenged a new rule that would require them to register their basic studies of the human brain and behavior in a federal database of clinical trials have won another reprieve.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring perceived weight discrimination and physiological dysregulation, fear conditioning, motor-memory consolidation, and infants’ learning to reach to the self.
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People Who Are Attuned to Physical Signs of Stress Have Higher Well-Being
Being in sync with physical signs of stress is linked with greater psychological and physical well-being.
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What Actually Works to Get People to Vaccinate?
Does public shaming work? Being kind and non-judgmental? Banning people from public places and fining parents $1,000? As communities deal with the United States’ worst measles outbreaks in 25 years and the country faces losing its