Living in a More Diverse Neighborhood Might Make You a Better Person
The people around us influence how we see the world, so perhaps it’s not so surprising that who our neighbors are plays a role in determining how we interact...
The Science of Helicopter Parenting
Hover mothers, helicopter parents. Call them whatever you want: we’ve all seen examples of parents who closely monitor their children’s lives – sometimes even as their children stop being...
Infants Will Judge You for Not Being Fair
“That’s not fair,” said every child ever, at one point or another. We all know that children can have firm convictions about what’s fair and what’s not, but it...
Personality Linked to Pro-Environmental Behaviors
Whether you’re concerned with how your actions affect the environment could be partly a matter of personality. That’s according to a new study from researchers in Brașov, Romania that...
How the Brain Links Generosity and Happiness
Sometimes the best way to make yourself happy is to make others happy. Recently, an international team of researchers made some progress in zeroing in on why this may...
Is Unethical Behavior Disgusting or Downright Infuriating?
Maybe unethical behavior makes your blood boil, or maybe it just plain disgusts you. Apparently, whether immoral actions provoke disgust or anger in you influences how you’ll respond. Psychologists...
Older and More Altruistic?
There’s something intuitively satisfying about the idea that we become less self-centered as we age. It fits with the image that “older” also means “wiser.” And according to a...
Surgery for Psychopaths?
The possibility that there are people around us who more or less look and act like us but don’t feel empathy like us is enough to give anyone the...
The Benefits of Biculturalism
People who move to a new place are often torn between assimilating to their new culture and staying in touch with their old one. Several studies suggest, however, that...
Why You’re Ungrateful
Having trouble getting into the Thanksgiving spirit? No problem, science has some good excuses for why you aren’t feeling very grateful. One of them comes from research published this...
