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How Reflex Responses and Personality Play into the Bystander Effect
When asked about emergency situations, most people say they would spontaneously help another person. However, not everyone does so in real life, especially when there are other people around, a phenomenon known as the bystander
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Power Can Chill the Mind’s Capacity for Empathy, Researchers Find
The shocking behavior of high-profile men now embroiled in sexual harassment scandals may be explained in part from psychological studies showing a link between power and a dampened capacity for empathy.
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Mindfulness and Meditation Need More Rigorous Study, Less Hype
The spread of mindfulness and meditation as wellness tools outpaces scientific evidence, a team of researchers concludes.
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The Scientists Who Pioneered Psychology-Centered fMRI Centers
A look at the psychological scientists who led the development of multidisciplinary imaging centers outside of medical centers.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring categorical coding of object features, making moral judgments in a foreign language, and the role of self-control in the magnitude effect.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring attention bias modification, emotion differentiation and depressive symptoms, episodic future thinking as an intervention to reduce delay discounting, and the role of hippocampal volume in predicting adolescent depression.
