Personality traits matter for a variety of life outcomes, including health and aging, marital and career success, and economic decisions such as spending behaviors. The same persistent differences in ...

It is well-known that many important societal indicators, that is, political, economic, social, and health factors vary across geographical regions. Many of these same indicators are also known to ...

The Stanford Prison experiment (SPE) is one of the most famous, or indeed infamous, studies in the history of psychology. The dramatic and horrifying result of the SPE have been used to draw rather ...

A new study conducted in collaboration with Facebook using anonymised data from the social networking site shows a correlation between people's social and financial status, and the levels of ...

Scientists have found that two identical twins raised in different countries have a huge IQ difference. A report published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, assessed the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Few topics in psychology are more ...