Research reveals that your likelihood of finding love depends largely on your reasons for searching for it in the first place. Here’s why. Romantic relationships are viewed almost universally as one ...

In our daily life, we constantly find ourselves in various situations that have to be handled successfully to thrive in life. For this, there are plenty of interrelated processes going on in our heads ...

We’ve all been told to “stay motivated” when chasing our goals, as if success were a matter of enthusiasm alone. Yet science has been quietly rewriting that story. From behavioural psychology to ...

Online class-related boredom among college students is an academic emotion most often ignored by the academic community. Therefore, only a few empirical studies have been conducted by research ...

Human behavior is more strongly motivated by the desire not to lose something than by the desire to gain something. Here’s how to use this to your advantage. Individuals are more reluctant to lose ...

In a highly novel study published in Current Biology, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the National Institute of Mental Health, or NIMH, describe how two major neuronal ...

Previous research has found that parenting style influences academic resilience. Nonetheless, few studies have focused on the mechanism underlying the relationship between parenting style and academic ...

Success and personal achievement are landscapes dotted with advice that echoes from every corner: set clear goals, keep a positive mindset, cut down distractions. Easy, right? The formula for reaching ...

Dopamine is a key neurotransmitter known to modulate motivation and reinforcement learning. While the role of dopamine in these reward-related processes is well-established, the cellular and neural ...