“Would you please turn the lights up,” Robert F Kennedy Jr. asked the stage crew as he took the floor of New York’s Town Hall in Times Square, about to […]

The UT psychologist admires "people who acknowledge the world as a complex place," and his favorite example is someone far outside his discipline.

How tailoring living spaces to residents’ personalities may boost the success rate of community housing.

Understanding animals’ "personalities," says psychologist Sam Gosling, can help us better match them with owners and tasks. We may even someday see a "D-Harmony" for dogs and humans.

Misrepresenting yourself in conversation is possible, but how you arrange your home or office will give the game away.

New research suggests that we’re as skilled at seeing through social masks online as we are in the real world.

"Stereotyping" has become a dirty word, but as psychologist Sam Gosling explains, we all do it—and need to.

A conversation with Sam Gosling, professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.

Footnote about the Pinker-Gladwell kerfuffle: To discredit Gladwell, Pinker takes advantage of a truly embarrassing mistake (the science-writer's nightmare) in which Gladwell misspelled "eigenvalue'' as "igon value.'' (It seems a […]

When it comes to gauging exactly how the economy is faring, the long-held method has been to look towards the bare necessities. Turns out they don’t get much more bare […]

Last night a fireball lit up parts of the Utah sky– and the phenomenon, which saw the dead of night as bright as day, was captured on CCTV.

Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin called the hacking of her Yahoo e-mail account the “most disruptive and discouraging” incident in her campaign.

A service by North Pole dwellers to answer letters addressed to Santa has been suspended after a sex offender was recognized as a volunteer.

Sufferers of the chromosomal disorder Downs syndrome could be helped by a new drug which increases the levels of message-carrying chemicals in the brain.

In South Africa a polygamist businessman has been convicted of the murder of his pregnant wife and the attempted murder of his second wife.

President Barack Obama needs to take decisive action in Afghanistan and remind the American public why they are fighting the war he inherited from George Bush.

A super-submarine left over from the Second World War has been found in Hawaii.

Some morbidly overweight people don’t realise they’re obese according to the findings of a new report.

A translation firm is offering prospective parents the chance to check their preferred baby-names don’t mean anything embarrassing in other languages.

President Obama has admitted that the US government will miss the January 2010 deadline for closing Guantanamo Bay.