Babies are not blank slates. Lecturing on child and adolescent development I often describe babies as being pre-loaded with systems that...

Researchers have found that when a person rates their current mental health as 'positive' despite meeting criteria for a mental health...

We intuitively use more emotional language to enhance our powers of persuasion, according to research published in Psychological Science,...

More research on the effect of third person perspectives on anxiety reveals that social embarrassment can be reduced by shifting...

In lectures and training on human development, people are often intrigued when I discuss Johnathan Haidt's research that links the...

Most people can relate to the prickly, unsettling experience of déjà vu: When you're in a new situation, but you feel like you've been...

A recent study of relationships has found interesting predictors of infidelity within married couples. Read the surprising findings here.

Historically it was always believed that willpower was limited. For example, research showed that those who were encouraged to suppress...

Punishment might not be an effective means to get members of society to cooperate for the common good, according to a social dilemma...

Callous-unemotional traits have been linked to deficits in development of the conscience and of empathy. Children and adolescents react...

Doctoral student Alan S. Cowen and Prof. Dacher Keltner, PhD have created a new kind of map. Based on the study of emotion they have...

Sorry is always the hardest word to say, but research on social rejection suggests that you might benefit from sparing yourself this hurt...

Tackling the big issues of the day, it is surprising how much psychological research is devoted to this subject. The history of...

In the largest functional brain imaging study to date, the Amen Clinics (Newport Beach, CA) compared 46,034 brain SPECT (single photon...

More research has emerge regarding self-perception and anxiety. In lecturers I demonstrate how anxiety can be reduced by taking a...

Psychedelic drugs are making a psychiatric comeback. After a lull of half a century, researchers are once again investigating the...

In lecturers I often discuss how the emotional brain takes the big decisions or hijacks the rational brain without us being aware of it. ...

Two recent studies caught my eye on body language. In the first study the eye movements of of heterosexual students were tracked whilst...

How many times have you heard people deride counselling based interventions as just "talk." Interesting advances in brain imaging has...

Decision making is at the heart of many of the interventions I teach, like Motivational Interviewing.However people have different styles...