We’re total suckers for self improvement: The self-help industry brings in billions of dollars each year from countless books. All that encouraging advice can feel empowering and commonsensical, ...

A little push at the right time can help move disadvantaged black and Latino students onto the path to college years later, according to two new experimental studies. In several studies over the last ...

Psychologist Daniel Kahneman points out that "experienced happiness" refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers ...

A new study suggests that the vividness of a person’s fears about their future may be linked to anxiety through its effect on their self-esteem. The research, published in the journal Psychological ...

Women still lag behind men in fields of science, technology, engineering and math — and part of the problem may be psychological. New research shows college-aged women who affirmed their identities ...