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Engaging in kinky sex acts IRL is associated with greater sexual satisfaction, but watching rough content seems to have the opposite effect.

If You Watch Rough Porn, Researchers Have Bad News

By Noor Al-Sibai

People with borderline personality disorder prefer music that's reflective and complex versus loud, raucous music.

Health & Medicine

People With Borderline Personality Disorder Prefer These Head-Scratching Types of Music

By Sharon Adarlo

AI may soon ruin our ability to make decisions for ourselves — an outcome that would be, one expert warns, "catastrophic."

Artificial Intelligence

AI May Be Atrophying Our Brains, Professor Warns

By Noor Al-Sibai

Good news for women who have to exist under the male gaze: it doesn't, as some one might think, make you dumber.

Women Are Just as Cognitively Sharp Under the Male Gaze, Scientists Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

The concept of "love languages" has had a vice grip on pop psychology for decades — and now, some scientists are calling bull.

Love Languages Are Fake, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

It sounds like an update to an age old adage: what happens when you take a smartphone away from a narcissist?

Health & Medicine

Something Fascinating Happens When You Take Smartphones Away From Narcissists

By Noor Al-Sibai

The results are in: keeping good news a secret for a while may literally be good for you, scientists have found.

Scientists Discover Secret Trick to Feel “Energized and Alive”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new study has found that when people look at AI-generated images of faces, they're often convinced those are more real than the real thing.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Images of White People More Convincing than Real Photos, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

A senior OpenAI employee claimed that using the latest version of ChatGPT is akin to talking with a human therapist.

OpenAI Employee Says She’s Never Tried Therapy But ChatGPT Is Pretty Much a Replacement For It

By Noor Al-Sibai

A study says that alcohol gives us extra confidence to approach people we already find attractive and does not give us beer goggles.

Beer Goggles Don’t Exist, Scientists Find

By Sharon Adarlo

A study of middle school students found that those who are unattractive and unathletic get bullied — but we've got questions of our own.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Shocked That Middle School Is Horrible If You’re Ugly and Bad at Sports

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a study, scientists at Johns Hopkins University claim to have determined that, yes, you can actually hear the sound of silence.

Scientists Discover That You Can Hear Silence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There's an old joke in the bisexual community that goes: "How can you tell if someone is bisexual? Don't worry, they'll tell you."

Scientists Tested Whether People Could Identify Bisexual Men by Listening to Their Voices, and the Results Were Hilarious

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meet the People Who Claim to Be Alien “Starseeds”

Health & Medicine

Meet the People Who Claim to Be Alien “Starseeds”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As Microsoft's Bing AI keeps making headlines for its increasingly-bizarre outputs, one question has loomed large: does the chatbot have mental problems?

Artificial Intelligence

We Got a Psychotherapist to Examine the Bing AI’s Bizarre Behavior

By Noor Al-Sibai

Through a series of cruel experiments, British scientists have found psychological evidence linking flashy sports cars and small penis size in men.

Scientists Officially Link Sports Cars to Small Penis Size

By Noor Al-Sibai

A psychological researcher may be close to "Eternal Sunshining" memories of romantic betrayals using a surprising medication regimen.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Say They Can Damage Memories of Being Cheated On

By Noor Al-Sibai

Single life can be amazing — and scientists may have just discovered exactly why that is. Spoiler alert? It has a lot to do with you-time.

Scientists Say They Found the Most Awesome Thing About Being Single

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Anyone who's been in a long-term relationship knows that sex and desire wane over time, but there may be a relatively easy way to bring the spark back.

Scientists Have a Hack for Having More Sex in Long-Term Relationships

By Noor Al-Sibai

Does virtual reality nature have the same positive health effects that IRL nature does? A new study used virtual reality to put plants in a city.

Virtual Reality

Scientists Use Virtual Reality to Add Green Plants to Urban Hell

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Science is finally working to figure out what personality traits make someone an asshole.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Are Studying The Psychology of “A**holes”

By Noor Al-Sibai

No, it's not just you — men really do think they're smarter than everyone else.

Men Consistently Overestimate Their Own Intelligence, Scientists Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers at the University of North Carolina and the University of Missouri did a study of 830 voters to understand the conservative and liberal brain.

Neuroscience and Brain

Researchers Say There’s Something Psychologically Strange About Trump Voters

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new study complicates previous research associating testosterone with business success by linking the hormone with unethical behavior in sexual scenarios.

High Testosterone Linked to F**kboy Behavior, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

Research suggests that the funniest kids are also the smartest, based on how well middle schoolers could come up with captions for cartoons.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find That “Class Clowns” Are Actually the Smartest People in Class

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Cambridge psychologists have demonstrated that magic tricks can fool birds, based on a snack-based version of the shell game.

Science & Energy

Magic Tricks Can Fool Birds, Say Scientists With Nothing Better To Do

By Dan Robitzski

Scienists managed to open a two-way line of real-time communication with people who were having lucid dreams, some of whom were able to solve math problems.

Science & Energy

Scientists Communicate With Lucid Dreamers During Sleep

By Dan Robitzski

Monkeys in Zoo Prefer Traffic Noise to Nature Sounds

Science & Energy

Monkeys in Zoo Prefer Traffic Noise to Nature Sounds

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered that rats let out a high-pitch squeak when they're happy, giving a rare, measurable window into animal well-being.

Science & Energy

Finally: Scientists Discover Which Rats Like to Be Tickled

By Dan Robitzski

A team of psychophysicists believe they've figured out how consciousness works in our mind. If so, they would also have settled a 1,500-year-old debate.

Science & Energy

Psychophysicists: Your Brain Might Not Be as Conscious as You Think

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests scientists should pay greater attention to their lab mice's well-being. Not only for the mice's sake, but because it improves the science.

Scientists: Lab Mice Deserve Happier Lives

By Dan Robitzski

Watching a short video explaining how the questions on an IQ test work can boost one's score by 18 points, calling the test's validity into question.

Science & Energy

Watching This Video Raises Your IQ Score 18 Points, Researchers Say

By Dan Robitzski

Loneliness is difficult to quantify, but scientists find that prolonged isolation can lead to both mental and physical medical conditions.

Health & Medicine

COVID Could Be Making People So Lonely That They’re Getting Sick

By Dan Robitzski

As schoolchildren stay home during formative periods of their childhood, scientists are predicting they'll face educational setbacks for years.

Scientists Predict the Pandemic Will Set Students Back for Years

By Dan Robitzski

3D Printing Food in Certain Shapes Tricks People Into Eating Less

3D Printing Food in Certain Shapes Tricks People Into Eating Less

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers and ethicists are once again pushing back against AI-enabled sex robots marketed as a replacement for human relationships.

Researcher Warns That Sex Robots May Cause Psychological Damage

By Dan Robitzski

Shawn Rosenberg, a prominent psychologist at the University of California, Irvine told the crowd at a recent meeting of the International Society of Political Psychologists that "democracy is devouring itself," Politico reports.

Prominent Researcher Predicts That Democracy Is Going to Collapse

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists claim to have linked smartphone geotagging data with personality traits in a bid to create better targeted advertisements.

Robots and Machines

Researchers Can Predict Your Personality by Tracking Your Phone

By Dan Robitzski

A new experiment used VR to trick people's brains into thinking they inhabited spider or bat bodies. People reported feeling like the body was theirs.

Virtual Reality

Bizarre New VR Makes People Feel Like They’re Spiders

By Dan Robitzski

Lawmakers in the US have proposed a bill that would regulate in-game purchases for children's video games, signaling new efforts to protect gamers.

Virtual Reality

Lawmakers Want to Regulate Video Games Targeted at Children

By Natalie Coleman

In a virtual recreation of the infamous Milgram Shock Experiment, participants were just as reluctant to continue, even though no one was hurt.

Science & Energy

People Are Horrified When They Have to Torture a Virtual Person

By Dan Robitzski

In order to better understand how smartphone use correlates with mental health in adolescents, scientists want to access Google and Apple's data stashes.

Google and Apple Can Help Learn How Phones Affect Kids’ Brains

By Dan Robitzski

Some pills float in a blue tinted cup of coffee

Feeling Lonely? Scientists Are Developing a Pill to Fight Loneliness

People across the world are brutally assaulting robots — a trend that could indicate a deep compulsion to lash out against automatons.

People Are Brutally Assaulting Robots. Experts Want to Know Why

By Jon Christian

A global, four-year research project just found that 14 of the 28 classic psychology studies it examined couldn't be replicated.

Science & Energy

New Research Just Debunked 14 Classic Psychology Experiments

By Dan Robitzski

Phubbing: How Phones Pull You Away From Your Loved Ones

Phubbing: How Phones Pull You Away From Your Loved Ones

By Dan Robitzski

The Royal Society pledged to publish studies that attempt to replicate any research that it's published. Other journals should do the same.

Science & Energy

An Academic Publisher Challenges Its Peers: Verify the Research You Publish

By Dan Robitzski

Video Game Addiction Is Real And Professionals Aren’t Prepared To Help

Virtual Reality

Video Game Addiction Is Real And Professionals Aren’t Prepared To Help

By Victor Tangermann

No, Violent Video Games Don’t Cause Mass Shootings

No, Violent Video Games Don’t Cause Mass Shootings

How Will Humans React If We Discover Alien Life? This New Study Just Found Out (and Surprised Us)

How Will Humans React If We Discover Alien Life? This New Study Just Found Out (and Surprised Us)

The Placebo Effect Is Real and It Can Lead to Better Healthcare

Health & Medicine

The Placebo Effect Is Real and It Can Lead to Better Healthcare

By Kelsey R. Marquart

Therapy Is Proven To Improve Mental Health. Now, You Can Do It Anywhere.

Therapy Is Proven To Improve Mental Health. Now, You Can Do It Anywhere.

By Kaitlyn Wylde

How Predictable Are You?

Prosthetics and Devices

How Predictable Are You?

By Jolene Creighton