At Saint Louis University, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology is dedicated to examining the complexity of human life and society. While our areas of study span a broad range of topics, our ...

Focus of teaching and scholarship: I am a clinical psychologist whose research explores the intersection of personality and psychopathology. Most recently, I have been working to elucidate underlying ...

In the 1970s, psychologist Harry Harlow conducted one of the most disturbing experiments in behavioral science — the infamous “Pit of Despair.” Designed to study the effects of isolation on love and ...

From levitating magnets to mind-bending psychology studies, these ten experiments reveal just how surprising - and mysterious - our world can be. Each one challenges what we think we know about ...

New research published in Frontiers in Psychology (Liu et al., 2025) offers clear evidence linking teenagers' daily sedentary time and frequency of movement to their mental health. This paper ...

Can you spot the differences between a psychopath and a sociopath? Sociopathy and psychopathy are closely related personality traits that can both result in antagonistic attitudes and disruptive ...