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Mood plays a strong role in how people decide to spend their time each day, a Stanford psychologist found.  “These findings clarify how emotions shape behavior and may explain how humans trade off short-term happiness for long-term welfare,” said Jam

In what might be reassuring news to many of us, psychologist Kalanit Grill-Spector, PhD, and research associate Kevin Weiner, PhD, have found evidence of our brain’s resilience.

"The most likely driver of the changes is individual career incentives, especially promotion and tenure," said Russell Poldrack, a professor of psychology at Stanford University. Authors feel ever more acutely the need to publish as much and as

People in the United States are working longer hours and waiting longer to retire, often not by choice — and that could be bad news for the future of our economy.

The average age for retirement in the U.S. has jumped to 62 in 2014, up significantly

When a Tunisian-born man drove a 19-ton rented truck into a crowd of revelers celebrating France’s national holiday in the Mediterranean town of Nice last week, killing 84 people and injuring hundreds more, it was a deadly new example of an old