James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange ...

Early scientific theories—such as those explaining basic phenomena like gravity, burning, and the movement of molecules in ...

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The "superconscious aspects" of the human mind should be studied and explored just as much as the unconscious and conscious ...

In almost every intro class, someone is bound to say that psychology isn’t a “real science.” Physics is treated as rigorous, sociology as fluffy. These labels “hard” and “soft” science get tossed ...

Want to be better at spotting spiders and cockroaches? New evolutionary psychology research shows that people who saw videos ...

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How did the political party associated with stability and preservation become so interested in tearing down established ...

Martino’s first steps in research were firmly rooted in psychology. As an undergraduate, she studied mindset theory and ...

Researchers were able to determine that the asteroid came from the inner Asteroid Belt, the region between Mars and Jupiter, ...

A new study reveals how a hidden human bias has shaped centuries of scientific errors, from Galileo to modern research.

Pinker, though, has done a great deal of research in the field, as well as reading just about everything ever written on the subject. And he’s convinced that it is an unjustly neglected area of ...