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These findings strongly suggest that our brains just don’t provide us with the same level of pleasure or fulfillment when interacting with a loved one if we never get some time away from each other. Read More

“We’ve done research before that shows swearing does seem to help with pain,” explained Dr. Richard Stephens, director of psychology at Keele University. “Swearing is setting off a natural pain-relieving phenomenon called stress-induced analgesia.” … Read More

When analyzing participants’ selfie habits, researchers found that the longer the women took to edit and post selfies, it worsened their mood and dissatisfaction about their facial appearance, meaning: people didn’t like what they were seeing. Read More

While the temperature may not make a dent in the coronavirus’ presence, their research indicates that public health measures, such as school closures and social distancing, are significantly slowing COVID-19 down all over the planet. Read More

So, why can’t we stop ourselves from sharing personal information online?  Researchers from Penn State set out to answer that conundrum and came to numerous interesting conclusions. Read More

A new study from New York University finds that most people are way too confident in their ability to avoid online scams. Read More

For all of mankind’s incredible feats, we still don’t have a sure-fire hangover treatment that helps everyone. We can put a man on the moon, but somehow hangovers are still ruining many a Sunday morning. Read More

Surprisingly, a new study has found that eye contact made with another person over video chat elicits a very similar psychophysiological response from our autonomic nervous systems to genuinely making in-person eye contact. Read More

Selfish individuals’ minds and memories shield themselves from their selfish actions by misremembering what happened. Conveniently, these people remember being much more altruistic, generous, and fair then they were in reality. Read More