Although 1626 predates the formal emergence of scientific psychology in Germany in 1879, it nonetheless exerted a profound ...

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"The Romance of Reality" explains how life and consciousness can proliferate despite the seeming contradiction between ...

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Mel Kohberger said she was angered by internet posts from people who speculated whether her family had known all along that ...

Seung-Hee Claire Son, an educational psychology professor and director of the EARLY lab at the University of Utah, spoke of ...

One of the dominant ways of thinking about addiction is as a disease. While there is evidence for this approach, it often ...

Sponges are among Earth's most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic information from living sponges, as well as chemical signals from ancient rocks, ...

A new analysis uncovers traces of poison on the South African arrowheads, pushing back the timeline for poisoned weapons by ...

In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...

The 9,500-year-old remains of a woman in Malawi have set a new record, marking Africa's oldest evidence of intentional ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a mysterious human ancestor.