Nearly 50 years after one of the most controversial behavioral experiments in history, a social psychologist has found that people are still just as willing to administer what they believe are painful electric shocks to others when urged on by

Chimpanzees recognize their pals by using some of the same brain regions that switch on when humans register a familiar face. The study -- the first to examine brain activity in chimpanzees after they attempt to match fellow chimps' faces

How do we make proper movements? A new study in Psychological Science suggests that when we see an object, a number of motor programs in the brain are involuntarily activated (each with a different potential movement we can make), which

In everyday social exchanges, being mean to people has a lot more impact than being nice, research has shown. Feeling slighted can have a bigger difference on how a person responds than being the recipient of perceived generosity, even if

To whom would you rather give money: a needy person in your neighborhood or a needy person in a foreign country? If you're a man, you're more likely to give to the person closest to you -- that is, the

Prozac is regularly prescribed to ease the emotional pain of patients who are being treated for cancer. But can this common anti-depressant help to fight cancer itself?

Researchers have found a potential clue to the roots of epilepsy, autism, schizophrenia and other neurological disorders.

MRI brain scans should be included as a diagnostic test for early Alzheimer's disease, experts conclude.

Testing patient's blood for two proteins or biomarkers that occur when inflammation is present could help doctors identify which patients are more likely to have a stroke, according to a new article in the journal Stroke.

Children who participated in family-based or parent-only group weight-management programs were not as overweight after six months as children in a control group.

A greater commitment by science faculty to focus on science education could drive education reform at universities and K-12 schools, according to a new report by a team of researchers. The report evaluates the role that science professors who specialize

Men consistently outperform women on spatial tasks, including mental rotation, which is the ability to identify how a 3-D object would appear if rotated in space. A new study shows a connection between this sex-linked ability and the structure of

Prenatal alcohol exposure can cause a wide array of problems, including cognitive dysfunction. New findings demonstrate that alcohol can damage the microstructural integrity of fetal cerebral white matter in the frontal and occipital lobes of the brain. These areas of

Greek researchers describe a quick and easy artificial intelligence approach to working out heart attack risk. Physicians could use their system to provide patients with a personal risk factor and so advise on lifestyle changes or medication to lower their

Adoption is a great change in the life of a child. Children adopted from abroad to Norway are exposed to a language break in addition to other major upheavals. This may influence the acquisition of the child's new mother tongue.

Clicking and scrolling interrupt our attentional focus. Turning and touching the pages instead of clicking on the screen influence our ability for experience and attention. The physical manipulations we have to do with a computer, not related to the reading

New research shows that many people who experience psychological distress also slip into poor health habits, particularly smoking and physical inactivity. Over several years, these two factors alone may account for nearly two-thirds of the risk of heart attack and

Researchers have discovered that vulnerability to post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression run in families.

The old adage that we can only learn how to do something by trying it ourselves may have to be revised in the light of recent discoveries in neuroscience. It turns out that humans, primates, some birds, and possibly other

A system that can recognize human gestures could provide a new way for people with physical disabilities to interact with computers. A related system for the able bodied could also be used to make virtual worlds more realistic.