A Rochester Institute of Technology professor has earned a prestigious National Science Foundation award to use computers to better understand human behavior and social interaction. Ifeoma Nwogu, an ...

Psychologists and behavioral scientists have been trying to understand how people mentally represent, encode and process ...

The researchers suspected the pathway—known as the social perception pathway—might be functional very early in development.

A groundbreaking study conducted by researchers at Rissho University and Meiji University has uncovered unexpected findings about human cooperation. Using classic game theory, but two poorly explored ...

A new study has found that a robot’s feedback during a collaborative task can influence the feeling of closeness between the ...

Summary: New research shows that people tend to prefer simple explanations even when complex ones are more accurate. The study found that individuals focus mainly on visible or known causes while ...

There’s multi-hyphenates, and then there’s Dr. Cameron Parker. He’s the executive director of Student Affairs at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy. He’s also an author, actor, athlete and ...

I've been teaching Psychology at the college level since 1994. Near the start of many of my classes, I ask students to raise their hand if they came to college thinking that the words "Psychology" and ...