If you want to know how someone is feeling, it might be better to close your eyes and use your ears: People tend to read others’ emotions more accurately when they listen and don’t look, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

For the first time, researchers have evidence of exactly what dads are doing while moms are taking care of housework or tending to their child.

Feeling the pain of failure leads to more effort to correct your mistake than simply thinking about what went wrong, according to a new study.

Brain structures that control sexual and aggressive behavior in mice are wired differently in females than in males. This is the finding of a study led by scientists at NYU School of Medicine and published online recently in Nature Neuroscience.

In the wake of recent violent protests world-wide, Tina Kempin Reuter, director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Institute for Human Rights offers some practical tips on how to confront hate.

Benjamin Burroughs spends hours studying children's videos on YouTube. A father of three kids who teaches and researches how technology shapes people's lives, Burroughs is fascinated by the growing number of fun, elaborate entertainment videos aimed at babies, toddlers, and children up to 5 years old.

Why is social media such a hard habit to break?

When you're feeling blue, your photos turn bluer too. And more gray and dark as well, with fewer faces shown. In other words, just like people can signal their sadness by body language and behavior--think deep sighs and slumped shoulders--depression reveals itself in social media images.

Violent news events present editors with a troubling journalistic decision: How much of the violence, if any, should the audience see as part of the story?

Loneliness and social isolation may represent a greater public health hazard than obesity, and their impact has been growing and will continue to grow, according to research presented at the 125th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association. (Also Read: Loneliness Can Kill You — The 21st Century Nightmare)