Scientific literacy is considered essential in modern society (Anelli, 2011), where reasoning skills and knowledge of the scientific process can help citizens evaluate claims about food, relationships, health, climate ...

Therapeutic Touch and Healing Touch are complementary, energy-based treatments. They are based on the premises that (1) illness is a result of “a disruption of the flow of energy surrounding a person’s being” and (2) ...

Although opposite-sex friendships are often defined as platonic, heterosexual men and women frequently report sexual or romantic undertones in their friendships with the opposite sex. In several studies in which young ...

Studies suggest that the division of household labor and childcare, even in dual-earner households, is imbalanced. Women spend more time than men do on household and childcare tasks. Gender differences in childcare ...

We conducted a series of studies to explore the possibility that romantic attachment style is transmitted via the family, either through shared genes or shared rearing environment. Family members should be similar ...

People make choices in nearly every domain of life, and individuals differ in their choice-making strategies: maximizers search extensively for the best possible option. Satisficers search just until they encounter an ...

Misrepresentation of data, or “spin,” comes in various forms and can be intentional or unintentional. One of the most prevalent forms of spin involves misleading interpretation – specifically, making causal claims that ...

People express their personality traits and attitudes in many ways. People express themselves in the way they speak and carry themselves, what they post on social media, the leisure activities they pursue, the music they ...

The topic of immigration is a politically polarizing issue despite the U.S.A.’s characterization as a post-racial nation-state. In the current research, we tested the hypothesis that people’s attitudes about immigration ...

Numeric problems, like those shown in the 2x2 matrices to the right, require people to calculate two proportions and then compare the proportions in order to get the correct answer. In general, thinking in terms of proportions ...