Psychology studies relevant to everyday life from PsyBlog

How Other People’s Unspoken Expectations Control Us

7 December 2009

We quickly sense how others view us and play up to these expectations.

30 November 2009

The stories we weave about our mental processes are logically appealing but fatally flawed more often than we'd like to think.

26 November 2009

Classic social psychology study explores our yearning to bask in the reflected glory of successful others.

24 November 2009

New psychology research demonstrates a direct effect of snack food adverts on increased consumption for both adults and children.

19 November 2009

Does mimicking other people's body language really make them like us?

12 November 2009

We get over bad moods much sooner than we predict, thanks to the covert work of the psychological immune system.

31 October 2009

Why we overestimate the power of our own vote.