Replication Study Shows No Evidence That Small Talk Harms Well-Being
People who engage in more substantive conversations tend to be happier but idle small talk isn’t necessarily negatively related to well-being, researchers find… More
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How Other People’s Investments Can Elicit the Sunk-Cost Fallacy
You rent a movie, only to realize 20 minutes in that it’s a terrible film – but you keep watching it… More
How Rooting for a Rival Could Help Your Team
Why would you ever root against your team in the NCAA basketball championship? Psychological science suggests that a rival team’s win may improve your team’s motivation and performance next season… More
New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring trends in adolescent media use and depression, memory amplification following trauma, perceptual inference in autism spectrum disorders, and statistical learning applied to diagnostic predictions… More
Making People Feel Bad Can Be a Strategy for Helping Them
People may try to make someone else feel negative emotions if they think experiencing those emotions will be beneficial in the long run… More
New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring affective instability in people with borderline personality disorder, intellectual profiles of learning disorder subtypes, and social cognition and psychosis… More