Knocking Down Walls in Virtual Reality Can Boost Creativity
Creativity can be thought of as a process of breaking down walls between different ideas. Now, a team of researchers in China and the United States have taken that...
What Do Your Media Habits Say About Your Personality and Mental Health?
Here’s a shocking finding: going on the Internet might correlate with good mental health. And if you don’t find that shocking, you probably don’t spend enough time on the...
The Dangers of Phubbing
“Phubbing” may be a made-up word, but the phenomenon it describes is very real. The verb to phub was originally coined as part of a marketing campaign for the...
Some Usernames Are More Trustworthy Than Others
Your choice in usernames could impact how people perceive your online persona. In particular, some usernames seem to be inherently more trustworthy than others, even when additional information about...
Why Materialists Flock to Facebook
If you use social media regularly, you probably know that there there are good sides and bad sides that come with the level of hyperconnectedness that sites like Facebook...
Facebook, Narcissism and Fear of Missing Out
Do you have a Facebook problem? If so, you’re not alone – well, as long as you’re on Facebook, anyway! Psychologists sometimes talk about “Facebook intrusion,” which is the...
The Ingredients of an Addictive Video Game
Psychologists are still working on piecing together the details of what exactly video game addiction is. One of the open questions is how similar gaming addiction is to other...
What Do Your Selfies Say About You?
Selfie takers may be revealing a lot more about themselves than they realize – at least, that’s the idea behind new research published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology....
Ebooks May Have Surprising Benefits for Toddlers
When I was looking through recently published research and came across a study titled Parent-Toddler Behavior and Language Differ When Reading Electronic and Print Picture Books, I clicked on...
Ignoring the News Makes People Care Less
With TVs, videos and online content all around us, we often find ourselves having to block out different kinds of media. After all, with the information overload that’s possible...
