Which is scarier: an all-powerful deity or your mom?
A new study finds that providing true details mixed with a fake event convinces two in three the story was real.
A new longitudinal study of incarcerated felons produces a nuanced answer.
A new study finds that prisoners who deny their guilt are more likely to hold out on eating before execution.
New research suggests feelings of remorse heighten our enjoyment when we succumb to temptation.
British researchers report on one promising way to get more people to agree to donate their organs after death.
New research finds when we make amends to assuage our guilt, a third party often pays the price.
Collective guilt regarding climate change can be a catalyst to individual action, but new research suggests eliciting that emotion can be tricky.
Excessive atonement can result from inextinguishable guilt, report two researchers who have named the effect after a perpetually apologetic character from the Harry Potter series.