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Velavan Senthilkumar (25) has had a successful year as a professional squash player, rising from outside the top 200 to 66th in the PSA World rankings. He attributes his success to hard work on physical and mental fitness, including meditation and visualisation techniques. His psychology degree has helped him to…

England’s chief medical officer owned up to experts’ ignorance of psychology. If only others had been so candid in admitting their errors, says Stephen Reicher, a professor of psychology

An investigation by the University of Washington found that "race was used as a substantial factor in the selection of the final candidate and the hiring process" of a professor by the school's psychology department, violating a university executive order that bans the consideration of race in hiring. The report…

Colour experts reveal the power of brown colour psychology in interior design

Color psychology is a hot topic in the world of interior design, but does it really have an effect? We asked designers and color experts what they think

Walking through a town or city, you will encounter buildings with diverse shapes and sizes. These unique styles exist in part because the buildings were constructed by different architects, engineers and builders.

IIITB researchers develop interpretable pipeline to predict engagement in human-robot interactions. Pipeline uses ML & psychology to model engagement & provide deeper insights into human personality, attitudes & emotions. Applications in online learning, assistive robotics & intelligent conversational agents.

My team’s new study joins a growing body of research showing that humans are highly attuned to other people and what they think.

People fact-checked social media posts more carefully and were more willing to revise their initial beliefs when they were paired with someone from a different cultural background than their own, according to a study my collaborators Michael Baker and Françoise Détienne and I recently published in Frontiers in Psychology.

Amelia Tyler drew from an unexpected place for their Baldur's Gate 3 role

To explore the intersection of the ancient wisdom of Yoga and Vedanta and modern psychotherapy, the VIPRA Division of the Department of Clinical Psychology at NIMHANS recently organised its annual symposium on Indian Psychology, at a two-day workshop titled “A Yoga-Vedantic Approach to Psychotherapy”.