Researchers have found that children participating in extracurricular sporting activities are more likely to follow rules and remained focused in the classroom... <<Read Article>>

 It’s a game. But it’s also what we need in life: the freedom to be found...   <<Read Article>>

Be careful when choosing your next passport photo or profile image as a new study suggests we are so poor at picking good likenesses of our face that strangers make better selections...   <<Read Article>>

Maintaining pleasure after a great vacation is a challenge, but there are vacation-extending tactics that can help... <<Read Article>>

There's plently of research evidence out there that shows that therapy can help people. But we also know that it helps some people more than others. Just why that's so is a complex question that I can't explore thoroughly here. But I can say that a lot of research indicates that two of the most significant factors in effective therapy are the quality of your connection with your therapist and your own contribution to the work... <<Read Article>>

When you're one and a half years old, having your favourite ball taken away is likely to result in a temper tantrum. But while babies wear their feelings on the sleeves of their onesies, adults often mask their emotions, responding to life's disappointments with stoic reserve...   <<Read Article>>

It turns out, whether you're quick to laugh and smile may be partly in the genes. "One of these big mysteries is why do some people laugh a lot, and smile a lot, and other people keep their cool," said study co-author Claudia Haase, a psychology researcher at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois... <<Read Article>>