Given that this time of the year is a festive season for many people all over the world, today’s post will be about the decision to help others. Prosocial acts—which social scientists define as those ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Christi Bergin has devoted 40 years of her life to helping teachers and their students. Throughout her career, she’s noticed two simultaneous trends in the field that seem to be ...

Do nice guys finish last, or first? What about nice women? We continue to debate the relational value of kind, compassionate behavior. But one aspect of being “nice” that has been linked with romantic ...

Before meeting University of Missouri research professor Christi Bergin, fifth-grade science teacher Amber Lewis was used to managing classroom behavior using rewards and consequences. Through ...

Researchers from University of Kentucky, Arizona State University, and Pennsylvania University published a new Journal of Marketing article that explores scenarios where people take on an ambassador ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Superheroes are saving the real world, too. A study published in The Journal of Psychology in August found that superhero movies ...