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

Punch, a monkey that went viral after he was abandoned by his mother in a Japanese zoo, is reminiscent of a foundational attachment theory experiment ...

A baby macaque monkey named Punch has gone viral for his heart-wrenching pursuit of companionship. After being abandoned by his mother and rejected by the rest of his troop, his zookeepers at Ichikawa ...

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 ...

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 ...

Exposure to war news will create more fissures in our political landscape. We get conservatives with stronger conservative ...

A baby macaque monkey named Punch has gone viral for his heart-wrenching pursuit of companionship. After being abandoned by ...

When you walk into a doctor’s office, you assume something so basic that it barely needs articulation: your doctor has touched a body before. They have studied anatomy, seen organs and learned the ...

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.

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.