After more than a year of idealizing life without COVID-19, people are starting to reenter 'normal' life. Clinical psychology provides guidance on how to prepare for your post-pandemic reboot.

A quick reflection in the morning can leave you feeling like a leader at work, say researchers. Here are the prompts they suggest.

Passion is not "a universally powerful cornerstone of achievement," researchers report. And the culture a person grew up in makes a big difference.

We put in mental effort when there's a reward, research finds, but also when our performance will make a difference.

The "sunk costs" phenomenon, where we keep at a task even if it's not working because of time we've already invested, influences monkeys, too.

Research on self-awareness and motivation can help you stick with your New Year's resolutions. Here are six tips to help you keep going.

An expert on motivation has advice for creating New Year's resolutions for 2021. For starters, consider others.

If you want more coffee, but the pot is empty, is it worth getting up and brewing some more? Researchers have figured out how your brain decides.

Unfairness alone is upsetting enough to drive people to punish lucky recipients of unfair outcomes.

Few white evangelicals in the U.S. say they believe in human-made climate change. This strand of science denial seems to have as much to do with conservative politics as the Bible's teachings.