People with health anxiety tend to get tangled up in problematic behaviors, such as reassurance-seeking, excessive body checking and avoidance. These behaviors act like a vortex, sucking you into that ...

Psychology—it is the science of the "mind" and "behavior."How do humans and animals feel, think, learn, interact with others, ...

Ever wonder why adults cling to things in which they've invested time or effort? In behavioral experiments, people often predict that they would stick with an option just because it was harder to get.

In 1971, a controversial psychology experiment at Stanford University spiraled out of control, raising disturbing questions ...

Netflix debuted their series “The New Stanford Prison Experiment” on Oct. 21, shocking audiences with a six-episode reality ...

A recent study provides evidence that some results of behavioral experiments with insects cannot be fully reproduced. So far, possible reproducibility problems have been little discussed in this ...