When children go missing, some cases dominate headlines while others receive little attention. Research reveals how psychological bias shapes whose disappearances spark urgency.

Bold hues are doing more than brightening wardrobes for. Shakaila Forbes-Bell tells us that they’re influencing mood, confidence, and more.

The reactions to figures like Meghan Markle Serena Williams and Michelle Obama may reveal more about society than about the ...

Programming for America’s 250th anniversary highlights the legacy of the country’s first — and last — all-women medical college, which was founded in 1850.

Have you ever been on a diet yet eaten a family-sized bag of chips all on your own or planned to wake up early yet hit the "snooze" button on your alarm so many times that you ended up late for a ...

Like-Jones introduced the “Modern Mirror Effects” on youth development. When Black youth don’t see themselves accurately presented, they experience “symbolic annihilation,” the idea that if you aren’t ...

One hundred years ago, Black History Month began as an act of correction. Historian Carter G. Woodson established Negro History Week to preserve Black contributions from being erased from American ...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968. Jesse Jackson, his 26-year-old protégé, was there. Photos and videos from that era show ...

The childhood pain of never quite fitting in with your family might have felt isolating, but it secretly equipped you with psychological superpowers that most people spend decades trying to develop.

Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. Every family has one—that relative who never quite fits the mold, who questions things others accept, who takes the path that makes everyone else ...

The Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues sponsored a talk on February 3 titled “The Psychology of Belonging: Navigating Identity on a College Campus with speaker Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum.” Tatum is an ...