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Letting your emotions out can reduce stress, which can boost your immune system — as long as you then process your emotions.

Journaling was long thought of a practice reserved for us writers (and middle schoolers who have a top-secret diary), but that's no longer the case: People of all ages have found journaling for mental health to be an efficient, therapeutic, and…

There are many benefits to using journal prompts for mental health. These 50 prompts will help you create lasting change for depression, anxiety, and more!

It's well motivated, but there's little evidence that it leads to meaningful changes in behavior

He said the teen who’s been arrested for the murder of two protesters “was involved in the use of firearms to resolve whatever conflict was in place.”

The players say doctors use two scales — one for Black athletes, one for white — to determine eligibility for dementia claims.

The first research center of its kind in the country is bringing renewed rigor to the investigation of the drugs’ therapeutic uses

Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin. The consequences could be serious.

Black women often work hard to avoid reinforcing stereotypes and racist beliefs. Don’t doubt your experience — take action.

Nature - People who have inherited nerve-altering mutations from the ancient hominins tend to experience more pain.

During the suffrage movement, conventional wisdom held that civic duty was bad for the ovaries.

A strange origin story for an enduring self-concept.

There's a big difference between scientific studies done on mice and on humans. One social account is devoted solely to pointing this out and revealing misleading journalistic takes.

'Sevo' electrodes are designed with coarse, curly hair in mind

Resilience is a set of skills—and psychologists know how you can learn them.

Stanley Milgram’s famous electric-shock experiments tackled whether a person could be coerced into behaving heinously, but new research released Thursday offers one explanation as to why. Turns out, people actually feel disconnected from their actions when they comply with orders, even though they’re the ones committing the heinous act.

A number of the most important progenitors of modern statistics were also passionate advocates of eugenics. To a large part their interest…

People often suffer from an 'illusion of knowledge,' write the authors of a new study that finds that people who hold the most extreme views about genetically…

New research from Berkeley shows that police are often the agitators of violence

Smoking has long been known to cause complications in pregnancy but a new study aims to show how a fetus, of a smoking mother, reacts differently.