Country Joe McDonald, a musician who performed at the Woodstock festival and led the psychedelic-folk band Country Joe and the Fish, has died at age 84. The band announced that the singer and ...

New research suggests that difficult people, aka hasslers, contribute to chronic stress and elevate epigenetic biomarkers ...

In that context, a gradual decline in birthrates — especially when driven by education, opportunity and access to contraception — may not be a crisis. It may be a stabilizing force. The goal should ...

Ian Anderson is a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology. Wendy Wood is professor emerita of psychology and business at the University of Southern California.

Economists estimate that in terms of life satisfaction the non-financial costs of unemployment are several times larger than ...

Voters are moving away from the traditional pocketbook concerns that have shaped past election cycles, a new poll suggests.

Until recently, governments could postpone these choices by borrowing on convenient terms. But now, unprecedented debt levels and higher borrowing costs have raised the stakes. At the same time, ...

Loneliness is not evenly spread, even among older adults.  Men, for instance, are more likely to be lonely than women but so ...

The traces that conflict leaves on the mental well-being of global youth cut deep, often lingering for years after the guns go silent. Yet in global conversations about ceasefires, reconstruction and ...

Parents are the third rail of the discipline conversation. Teachers say they need backup from their school leaders.

Social media platforms, often praised for giving everyone a voice, can reinforce inequality and deepen the exclusion of marginalized communities, new research from the University of Bath School of ...

“Most of the harm that comes from alcohol,” said one researcher, is “due mostly or mainly to drinking with their buddies.” By Roni Caryn Rabin The psychologist first became intrigued by the phenomenon ...