What’s the Best Way to Inspire Positive Environmental Behavior?
While imagery of natural objects is often used to inspire climate action, appeals to ego and altruism prove more effective for some.
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How the Intolerable Becomes Acceptable
New evidence of our strong psychological need to rationalize the status quo.
Your College Major Predicts Midlife Health
Business and biology majors tend to be in strong physical shape a quarter-century after graduation. Psychology majors, not so much.
Could Getting Better Sleep Help Prevent PTSD?
New research suggests that people who have fragmented rapid eye movement sleep are more susceptible to mental trauma.
The Psychological Impact of Piracy
A recent study shows that seafarers taken prisoner by pirates have disproportionately high rates of post-traumatic stress.
Alone Time Linked to Creativity
Unless it's motivated by fear, social withdrawal can be a positive thing.
How Fear of a Physical Threat Can Foster Social Conservatism
New research confirms right-wing resistance to change is based largely in fear.
The Touch of Madness
Culture profoundly shapes our ideas about mental illness, which is something psychologist Nev Jones knows all too well.
The Paradox of Purpose and Its Relationship to Extremism
What happens when achieving your purpose comes at the expense of someone else?
How to Thwart Right-Wing Terrorism
Three distinct psychological predispositions combine to produce terrorists. And one appears to be on the rise among the extreme right.