Criminology has long been concerned with crime, law, and social control, while psychology has focused on individual cognition ...

Polls in the last two years tell us that people believe that the United States is in an economic and social decline. While most fingers are pointed at the economy, there are some psychological ...

Numerous visual illusions are caused by limits in the way our eyes and visual neurones work -- rather than more complex psychological processes, new research shows. Numerous visual illusions are ...

The inability to throw things away taps into deep psychological processes involving loss aversion, emotional attachment, and cognitive biases that have been around for thousands of years. Think of it ...

A new study by Monash Public Health and Preventive Medicine has found that many injured workers develop a “secondary psychological injury” not from the original incident, but from prolonged ...

Since the early years of this century, it has been commonplace for computerized analyses of athletic statistics to guide a baseball manager’s choice of a pinch hitter, a football coach’s decision to ...