Recipients in the New Year Honours List have been recognised for their outstanding contributions across all parts of the UK for their work in areas including education and healthcare, and for services ...

Bamberg and Moreau also note that prior fasting experience may matter, too. Initial evidence suggests that people who have just started fasting experience more negative psychological states than ...

Models of social cognition generally portray people as being rational decision-makers, who will often weigh up options before deciding how to act, note the authors of a recent paper in Psychology and ...

The government has announced a new Mental Health Goals programme, backed by £50m of funding, which will research improving mental health treatments. Welcoming the announcement, President of the ...

Many of us use music to change how we feel, whether that's to lift low spirits, or encourage enthusiasm about a work-out. Research also shows that music has the power to modify not just mood but also, ...

It's nearly April, and let's face it, your New Year's Resolutions have fallen by the wayside. There's a reason that it feels so tempting to make them year after year — we all want to build good habits ...

According to a well-known proverb, patience is a virtue. According to a recent study in the Personality and Social Psychology Review, though, it's actually a coping mechanism that we employ to stop ...

Midlife is often framed as a period of decline rather than opportunity. A simple Google search reflects this bias: 'midlife crisis' yields over 10 million results, while 'midlife opportunity' returns ...

No holiday can last forever — but their positive effects might last longer than we thought. New research, published recently in the Journal of Applied Psychology, challenges previous ideas about how ...

Online spaces currently leave a lot to be desired in terms of safeguarding. Of particular note, the past few years have seen a surge in misogynistic content, and the normalisation of harmful views ...

We are constantly bombarded with the message that certain body types are particularly sexually desirable. Previous research, however, has consistently found that we're not really that good at knowing ...

First impressions have long been a mainstay of psychological research. In the past, much of the focus has been on how particular facial features influence our perceptions of how dominant others are, ...