The human mind has always fascinated scientists, but the quest to understand psychological behavior has led researchers down some disturbingly dark paths.

Even with highly extensive training, the human brain is not really capable of performing two tasks simultaneously. Moreover, even the smallest deviations from trained routines can have a significant ...

AI Humanizers are gaining popularity. This entails making AI seem more human. In a mental health realm, is this good or bad?

A recent study published in Consciousness and Cognition suggests that the human mind treats artificial agents much like real people. Working with an active digital partner tends to lower our conscious ...

Can artificial intelligence offer meaningful relationship advice, or do human therapists still provide something machines cannot replicate? Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for ...

A new cognitive psychology study reveals that our susceptibility to false memories depends heavily on how believable a suggested event is, and whether we are told it happened just once or repeatedly.

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir is one of today's best science fiction books. While much of the science and math is great, it falls a bit when it comes to evolution.

A few minutes with a chatbot may be enough to make it seem more mind-like. New research explores why humans start seeing ...

A new study in mice suggests psychedelics make the brain more likely to "see" images from memory rather than what's actually in front of it.

The Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) Navi Mumbai organised a two-day psychology festival titled Psychfest 4.0 on March 12 and 13, bringing together students, educators and mental ...

A newborn cannot speak, read, or walk. Yet moments after entering the world, the infant brain already responds to rhythm and ...

Humans perceive emotional expressions displayed by non-human primates and spontaneously mimic these expressions, according to ...