Relationships, Community, & Social Psychology

Study Looks at Why Single People Are Single

But why are you single?? It’s an annoying question, but recently psychology researchers took it to a new level: they asked that question to 648 people and asked those people to rate ...
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/ / Relationships, Sex, Social Psychology

The Advantages of Having Similar Friends

Part of what defines a friendship is what that friendship is founded on. For people to be friends, something has to connect them, but the nature of that connection is different from ...
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/ / Friendships, Positive Psychology, Relationships, Social Psychology

Personality Influences People’s Environmentally Friendly Behaviors

With a constant stream of news about coronavirus, it’s easy to overlook the disconcerting news that continues to come out regularly about another global crisis: climate change. Most recently, a study was ...
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/ / Behavioral Psychology, Environment, Personality, Social Psychology

COVID-19 Might Be Changing People’s Intentions of Becoming Parents

The new way of life brought about by the current pandemic has many people rethinking their long-term plans, and that may include reevaluating their desire to have children. According to a new ...
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/ / Behavioral Psychology, COVID, Health Psychology, Parenting, Social Psychology

Envy Might Drive Some of Social Media’s Mental Health Effects

Social media has facilitated both new ways of connecting with others and new ways of tallying how our lives stack up against theirs. In the twenty-first century, keeping up with the Joneses ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Envy, Relationships, Social Media, Social Psychology

The Tweets That Go With a Quarter-Life Crisis

From getting married to buying homes, millennials are accused of doing everything later. But that’s not true when it comes to having life crises. As the rise of the term "quarter-life" crisis ...
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/ / Anxiety, Developmental Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology, Social Media, Social Psychology, Teens, Tweets, Young Adults

A Game to Measure Couples’ Trust

Can you measure trust in romantic relationships? A team of researchers in Germany thinks so, and they’ve put forward an activity called the Trust Game for Couples that’s intended to do exactly ...
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/ / Couples, Relationships, Social Psychology

The Demographics of Humor

Humor is a funny thing. Different people use it in different ways. I’ve touched on this topic in some previous blog posts. People with high self-esteem, for example, tend to use humor ...
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/ / Behavioral Psychology, Humor, Politics, Positive Psychology, Social Psychology

Switching Off Your Phone Half an Hour Before Bed Might Improve Sleep, Memory

I’m not going to bother telling you not to use your phone before bed. Partly because you’ve probably heard that advice before, and partly because it would be hypocritical of me to ...
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/ / Cognitive Psychology, Cyber Psychology, Health Psychology, Memory, Sleep, Social Media, Social Psychology

When People Lie Because the Truth is Unbelievable

From white lies to more malicious fibs, people bend or hide the truth for a variety of reasons. One of those reasons, it turns out, is that sometimes the truth is so ...
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/ / Honesty, Relationships, Social Psychology