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The sisters, who were raised apart by two different families, reveal new insights into the nature versus nurture debate

A longstanding puzzle in cognitive science is the secular rise in cognitive skill across generations. Cognitive scientists emphasise explanations such as improvements in health and nutrition. This column describes research using an economic model and population administrative data from Sweden to argue that this ‘Flynn effect’ may originate in part from changes in economic

For LGBTQ+ people, joy may live in the space between crises, and as such may be different from the joy experienced by cisgender and heterosexual individuals.

A roundup of mysterious, paranormal and strange news stories from the past week. Richard Carter, a senior lecturer in digital

RUPERT SANDERSON: The Duchess uses a stiletto heel as part of her sartorial arsenal in transforming herself from a busy mother into one of the worlds most photographed women.

New research suggests that business leaders might want to rein in their agreeableness when providing constructive feedback. The study, published in Personality and Individual Differences, provides evidence that warm and friendly leaders tend to provide less effective feedback to their team. ...

Over the weekend, a teenage male shooter perpetrated a horrific mass murder in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York,

Claw hand, properly called Dupuytrens disease, affects around five million Britons. It causes lumps of scar tissue to develop on the palms of the hands.

Human multitasking suffers from a central attentional bottleneck preventing parallel performance of central mental operations, leading to profound deferments in task performance. While previous research assumed that the deferment is caused by a mere waiting time (refractory period), we show that the bottleneck requires executive functions (EF; active scheduling account) accounting for a profound part of the deferment. Three participant groups with EF impairments (dyslexics, highly neurotics, dep...

We learn about a personality type that wreaks havoc with people's emotions