Ninety percent of psychology studies come from countries representing less than 15 percent of the world's population. Researchers are realizing that universalizing those findings might not make sense.
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An Ig Nobel Prize-winning study suggests we need to rethink why imitation evolved.
Collective psychology says that people behave not as individuals, but as members of a collective.
Research shows that virtue in all areas of life contributes to good physical, emotional, mental and interpersonal health. It is, in fact, good for you to be good.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but plastic straws are ruining the ocean.
We used the latest techniques from artificial intelligence to study how support for or opposition to a piece of fake news can spread within a social network.
The way children make choices about candy on Halloween tells us a lot about human psychology.
Domino's Pizza and Ford have teamed up to offer pizza delivery via driverless cars in Michigan. Is it the way of the future?
Digital games now know you so well they can predict your behaviour.
A high school science test, a Psych 101 course, long job applications: Sometimes it's hard to be motivated to succeed. As it turns out, how you respond to difficulty and ease can make all the difference.
Experts may be dismissed when they express values, offer advice or make mistakes. But these expectations are unreasonable and unhelpful.
It turns out that most of us waste a lot of time looking for lost objects in the wrong places.
From losing inhibitions and anger to schizophrenia and dementia – science is uncovering the role small critters play in a range of illnesses and behaviours.
The minds of Pokemon trainers have been manipulated using basic behavioural science.
It's the best time to make a fresh start.
The discovery of the world's oldest jewellery at the Blombos Cave in South Africa has resulted in a paradigm shift in our understanding of human evolution.
Evolution also does not claim humans evolved from primates. Neither does it say non-human primates, including monkeys, baboons, chimpanzees and gorillas, will evolve into humans with time.
Ochre has many uses. It can be used to shed information on the evolution of the modern mind.
Do human pheromones exist? Despite the products some would sell you, there's no hard evidence yet.
“The worst call in Super Bowl history,” read a headline in my hometown Seattle Times after Seahawks’ head coach Pete Carroll seemingly threw the game away with his ill-fated decision to pass – rather than…
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Deputy Director, Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne
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Scientia Professor of Evolutionary Ecology; Academic Lead of UNSW's Grand Challenges Program; Director, Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, UNSW
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Professor of Psychology and ARC Laureate Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Psychology, University of St Andrews
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Research Fellow, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, UNSW
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Professor of Sociology (retired), Lancaster University
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Professor of Psychology, Monmouth University
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Reader, Geography and Environment, University of Southampton
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Postdoctoral researcher, National Taiwan Normal University
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Lecturer in Natural Environement, University of Exeter
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Researcher in Conservation Biology; Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota
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Lecturer in Conservation Biology, University of Exeter
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Senior Lecturer in landscape architecture, Writtle College
