The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has released a fascinating new brochure called Women and Depression. It provides a wealth of information on depression and its treatments.

This research takes the phrase “keeping up with the Joneses” to a whole new level. New research published in a recent issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine reveals that good sex doesn’t take as long as you think (as long as you ask the man).

The New York Times recently did an interview with Harvard Professor Daniel Gilbert about his research on how people predict emotions, particularly happiness.

When we talk about personality the definition most psychologists use goes along the lines of “those relatively enduring patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors that distinguish people.” For a long time it has been thought that personality did not change in any meaningful way once a person hit adulthood. However, recent work suggests that not only does personality change in adulthood it changes well into old age as well.

A little humor goes a long way, especially when you’re bargaining. Find out how.

A number of studies have suggested that we perceive others level of distress quite differently based on how many social resources we feel we have at the moment. In other words when we feel supported by others we tend not to feel as overwhelmed by stressful situations.

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but what makes the smell memorable? Would a rose still be sweet if it was paired with a negative experience? Read more to find out.

Having what you want and wanting what you have are two different and important factors in predicting happiness.

Do you ever wonder why the world seems so hostile? Well it may not be the world, you yourself may be making the world a more hostile place. This is according to the findings of a recent study done by researchers at Iowa State University on how aggressive people can shape their social world.

Two of the most widely published and well respected researchers in relationship science got together to review what psychological science knows about love. As it turns out, according to Drs. Henry Reis and Arthur Aron, “a uniquely psychological perspective on love can be identified.” Here are a few of the highlights they point out.

A new study out of Australia finds that depressed women are more likely to be engaging in sex and sexual activity than their mentally well counterparts. So why aren’t they happy?

Staying in a bad relationship isn’t good for anyone. From the standpoint of promoting family cohesion as a panacea for child welfare, there is pretty compelling evidence that it’s the emotional content of a relationship that matters, not the label that can be applied to it.

The quantity and quality of studies that report a link between stress and poor health is such that it seems to be a definitive finding at this point. However, there is a relatively new study that suggests that stress not only has a negative impact on the person experiencing the stress, it could also have negative effects on the person’s children.

There is a fascinating article in the most recent Psychological Science. It studies how much influence our genes have on our subjective well being (e.g., how happy we are with our lives). Alexander Weiss (University of Edinburgh), Timothy Bates, and Michelle Luciano (Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane) investigated this question using a [...]