Browsing: Psychology

Efforts to reduce the hostility people feel towards rival political parties can result in small changes – but such effects largely evaporate within two weeks, researchers…

Calling the contrite: are you very sorry, or are you extremely remorseful? Do you see that what you did was very wrong, or have you recognised…

The cost of seeing private psychologists is soaring and many are so busy they are turning away new clients, research has found.The prices psychologists charge have…

In the early 1990s, Naomi Stadlen was attending an event at the Freud Museum in London, where her husband, Anthony, was a research fellow, and someone…

In this episode from January 2025, Ian Sample speaks to Keon West, a professor of social psychology at the University of London, whose new book explores…

Starting college can be an exciting time for students to learn new things, make friends and live away from home for the first time. But not…

In 2024, the Oxford English Dictionary announced its word of the year was ‘brain rot’. The term relates to the supposedly negative effects of consuming social…

When Bonnie hears the opening bars of the Verve’s Bitter Sweet Symphony, she is transported back to 1997. But it isn’t a joyful memory that comes…

Whether it’s an exam, flight or health check, some people take a sunny view of the future while others plan for catastrophes.Now researchers have found that…

Got something to say sorry for? Here are words that have no place in your apologies, according to those who have spent years analysing them: “It…