The American Psychiatric Association estimates that approximately one in ten people in the United States suffer from some type of phobia. About 40 percent of phobias are related to creatures such as ...

A small mountain of scientific evidence supports the idea that facing your fears is the way to get over them. However, that evidence doesn’t make it any easier to confront, say, the group of people ...

Political violence has become increasingly common in the two years since the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Federal Bureau of Investigation received more reports of hate crimes in 2021 ...

IF YOU break out in a cold sweat at the thought of eight hairy legs, “invisible” images could help. Joel Weinberger at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, found that exposing people to ...

If you suffer from social anxiety, you may have been told it's all in your head. Now, scientists have zeroed in on a key brain function that explains how you interpret the world around you. By ...

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Reading the face of a person who is trying to conceal fear or other emotions is tricky business, according to a new Northwestern University study of electrical activity in the brain ...

Bad news for advertisers hoping to sell products to consumers’ subconscious: a new study finds subliminal messaging works best not with images of happiness or consumer satisfaction, but when the ...