Racial trauma is a wound, not a disorder. Healing begins with affirmation, not pathology. Learn how Black psychology offers ...

The brain weighs factors based on their importance to oneself and one’s social world as part of a complex calculation ...

A new book by GSE faculty Stephanie Fredrick and Amanda Nickerson aims to provide adults with the tools they need to tackle ...

What if everything you know about mental health is built for the wrong people? A new approach is changing that.

Teenagers are often seen as moody, rebellious and overly focused on what their peers think. Wake Forest Psychology Professor ...

In the heart of northern South Africa lies Namaqualand, a quiet region with a rare gift for science. Here lives a small but unique group of people with an extremely uncommon genetic ...

That influence shapes customer behavior by helping them form useful mental shortcuts during the buying process. Persuasion can be a powerful pathway to influence your customers, earn more sales, and ...

Undergraduate Chelsey Tien won the Dean’s Award for her psychology research that explored the role parents play in helping ...

From shaping kids’ math confidence to influencing adult relationships and mental health, new research highlights just how ...

Leaving their drink by itself in public and social situations is one of the things street-smart people avoid doing at all ...

Young children who struggle to control their emotions and behavior have more symptoms of anxiety and depression as teenagers, ...

The idea to study the potentially beneficial influence of mind wandering on information processing occurred to us during the ...