Steve Rimmer

New research has shown that teenagers who get the recommended amount of sleep per night are likely to be academically and emotionally better off than their peers who do not.

This Christmas, Doctor Who will undergo another of his periodic regenerations as Peter Capaldi takes over the role from Matt Smith. The process, argues Chartered Psychologist Sarita Jane Robinson, can be seen as a metaphor for adolescence.

Although many people will be looking forward to getting together with friends, family and workmates over the festive season, this sudden increase in socialising could prove debilitating and overwhelming for sufferers of social anxiety disorder.

People who speak a second language are less likely to suffer the effects of dementia in early life, the largest study on the topic to date has found.

Producers of the most popular science programme on #Spreaker and #Veetle

Skepticism about repressed traumatic memories has increased over time, but new research shows that psychology researchers and practitioners still tend to hold different beliefs about whether such memories occur and whether they can be accurately retrieved.

Political bias can influence how people perceive the facial characteristics of a presidential candidate – even after seeing his face on TV thousands of times, according to research forthcoming in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

More students are seeking counselling

Cohabiting couples urged to marry

Exercise reduces chances of depression

Producers of the most popular science programme on #Spreaker and #Veetle

Producers of the most popular science programme on #Spreaker and #Veetle

Producers of the most popular science programme on #Spreaker and #Veetle

Producers of the most popular science programme on #Spreaker and #Veetle

A short time before Christmas the discontented fir tree was the first to fall.