What gets a company to do better after a mistake, such as product recalls? New research finds some surprising answers.

Watching awe-inspiring tutorials for just a few minutes a day can ease health care workers' feelings of depression and emotional exhaustion.

"Offering incentives, especially cash rewards... helps people of limited means struggling with obesity to lose weight."

The opportunity to play in postseason college football tournaments on national TV may motivate student athletes to keep their grades up.

The author of a new book explains what keeps us from pursuing our New Year's resolutions and how to stick with them on this podcast episode.

To learn to be more proactive, start by viewing yourself as someone who cares about the environment and the future.

When people set their own exercise goals, and then pursue them immediately, it's more likely to result in lasting positive changes

Just the right amount of information can foster preschoolers' curiosity about a topic, research finds.

Science denial is not new, but researchers have learned a lot about it. Here's why it exists, how everyone is susceptible to it in one way or another and steps to take to overcome it.