The Latest Breaking News from Psychology

Progress in artificial intelligence has enabled the creation of AIs that perform tasks previously thought only possible for humans, such as translating languages, driving cars, playing board games at world-champion level and extracting the structure of proteins. However, each of these AIs has been designed and exhaustively trained for a…

There’s a theory in psychology called empathic mimicry, which postulates that over the course of a relationship, a couple’s shared empathy may ultimately cause its members to start resembling one another.

Experts agree that nationalism plays on psychological impulses that do not bring out the best in human beings

Erik Enge excels as Inter Milan wunderkind Martin Bengtsson in Ronnie Sandahl’s impressively knotty look at the psychology of top-tier sport

Psychologists are struggling to help stricken locals cope with PTSD while facing their own grief after intense bombing

Adopting autonomous vehicles is a question of psychology as much as of technology.

In a recent article in Psychology Today, Danilo Bzdok, M.D. goes through the novel research using natural-language processing tools in machine learning to understand conscious awareness and how drugs alter it.

As psychiatry, which uses medical and biological methods to treat mental disorders, has largely overtaken psychotherapy, which relies on non-biological approaches such as conversation and counselling, psychotherapists have sought alternative challenges. One common approach is to focus on enhancing the happiness of mentally healthy people, rather than relieving the mental…

Understanding the human mind and behaviour lies at the core of the discipline of psychology. But to characterise how people’s behaviour changes over time, I believe psychology alone is insufficient – and that additional mathematical ideas need to be brought forward.