Despite the fact our actions are not really concealed, there is still a tendency to lie or deceive after dark, in low light situations, or even while wearing sunglasses.
But they do speculate that even when we communicate via e-mail, we may be more inclined to lie or distort if the lights are low than [...]

While plenty of thought has gone into why some people believe in a deity, there has been very little research into why the non-religious or atheists do not.
What we need now is a scientific study not of the theistic, but the atheistic mind. We need to discover why some people do not “get” the [...]

Happiness has two not so happy side effects according to a series of UNSW School of Psychology studies, which has found those in a jolly mood tend to become more selfish and careless.
Psychologist Joe Forgas at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, who has led many of these studies, suggests that [...]

Have you ever been in a group of, say, ten people who cannot decide on a place to eat, even though there are a dozen restaurants in sight? This indecision is just one example of crowd conformity. The group cannot decide, and no one wants to break ranks with the group’s… will.
However one person, with [...]

If the best part of taking a holiday is the anticipation in the lead up to the break, then the logical conclusion is take more (if shorter) holidays through-out the year.
In an analysis of 1,530 people, 974 of whom took a vacation during the study, researchers found that, unsurprisingly, people anticipating a trip reported [...]

Overall bronze medalists are happier with their prize than are silver medalists, who have a much greater sense of having just missed out on the top award, the gold medal.
“On average, bronze medalists are happier than silver medalists,” said Victoria Medvec, a psychologist and professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in Illinois. [...]

Film shots of a certain length, that repeat according to a regular pattern, are more likely to make for a movie that will hold the attention of its audience:
“Film-makers have got better and better at constructing shots so that their lengths grab our attention,” says James Cutting, a psychologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, [...]

Apparently people will derive greater enjoyment from viewing works of arts if they have not been offered a prior interpretation of a work’s meaning, or the artist’s creative intentions.
“Providing contextual information led to participants perceiving examples of the various styles of art as matching less well with their internal standards than when no contextual [...]

Interesting reading. There are three types of people in the world, those who have no passion at all (yet are still content), those with a passion for one thing, and those passionate about everything.
People with a passion for one thing are those who have found some calling in life and live and breathe that [...]

A study of New York Times article reading patterns has found readers tend to share items that are generally positive, emotional, intellectually challenging, or of a scientific nature, with their friends, a finding that somewhat refutes the notion people are mainly interested in stories of scandal or gossip.
“Science kept doing better than we expected,” [...]