Behavior

Maternal stress arising from perceived racial discrimination could cause premature births and lower birth weights

Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is all the rage lately. Is it real? Is there something special about people who have it?

Judgments about the way people talk happen quickly and affect hiring decisions

James Spilker, Jr., helped create a technology that profoundly changed the world

As biracial people become increasingly common in the U.S., bias based on perceived rather than actual identity will, too

Why saying ‘thanks’ can be detrimental

Go forth, self-healers

Recycled wastewater can be cleaner than bottled water, but people still avoid drinking it because of their disgust over its past condition.

We need to communicate to kids that their health, not a number on the scale, is what’s important

Humans everywhere bring together pitch, tempo and the like in a similar fashion

What I learned from a game that brings the phenomenon of implicit bias vividly to life

Students were given placebos and told they were placebos, yet the intervention helped