A nationwide mental health 'emergency' has been declared as a result of rising rates of mental health problems among the youth.

Psychology professor, David DeSteno explains how science has been able to highlight the benefits that organized religion provides.

Psychology professor Iris Berent questions the way we think about human nature, questioning long-held beliefs about what humans are born knowing.

Aliyah Jackson, second-year psychology student opens up about her co-op experience at You're With Us!, and the valuable lessons it taught her.

This fall, Jorge Morales, PhD, joins the psychology department at the College of Science as an assistant professor. He will also hold a secondary appointment in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities. Morales is currently completing post-doc work at Johns Hopkins University and starting his interdisciplinary lab at Northeastern. […]

Rebecca Shansky's research finds that stress during Covid-19 can change the way the human brain works.

Distinguished Psychology Professor, Lisa Feldman Barrett's newest study finds that human emotions cannot be determined by facial expressions alone, they must rely on context.

Neurogastronomy aims to help junk food addicts, cancer survivors, and COVID-19 patients.

We all do it. One second you’re fully focused on the task in front of you, a conversation with a friend, or a professor’s lecture, and the next second your mind is wandering to your dinner plans. But how does that happen? “We spend so much of our daily lives engaged in things that are […]

After decades of research, scientists have developed countless therapeutics to improve human health. But they’ve also created a problem. Many of these drugs don’t work as well for half of the population—that is, the female half. Women are also more often misdiagnosed for a variety of ailments, including stroke and ADHD. The root of this […]

Researchers in Northeastern’s PEN group use machine learning analysis to question the assumption that commonly used emotion words have biological meaning in a recent paper.

As COVID-19 vaccines begin making their way from science labs to doctors’ offices, three former U.S. presidents—Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama—have said they’re willing to get their shots on camera in order to encourage skeptical Americans to do the same. The move is “a good first step,” says psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett, but a broader, […]

Lisa Feldman Barrett, distinguished professor of psychology, has a new book out.

There are plenty of misconceptions about COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. And that’s especially true during a time when false information about the disease, the virus, and possible treatments is so hard to counteract. Different misconceptions about the coronavirus—about how it gets transmitted, and how it leads to COVID-19 complications, for example—can result from a limited […]