While sex can become compulsive and problematic for some people, there is little research on love as a true addiction.

With a term like “pathological,” it’s easy to assume the person must be lying for attention, power, or individual gain. But “unlike strategic lies that serve to avoid punishment or get an advantage, ...

Violent, end-of-the-world images can slam into a mother's mind while she is buckling a car seat or rinsing bottles, and the ...

Compulsive traits are tendencies to repeat patterned behaviors. They are often seen in psychiatric conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), addiction and eating disorders. However, ...

The “Uncertainty” Mechanism: Compulsive traits are linked to a specific decision-making strategy where habits are favored because the individual feels less certain about the consequences of long-term ...

For years, compulsive behaviors have been viewed as bad habits stuck on autopilot. But new research in rats found the opposite: inflammation in a key decision-making brain region actually made ...

A specific pattern of brain activity in a frontal brain region is linked to compulsive behaviors like excessive hand washing, chronic hair-pulling, and skin-picking in people with obsessive compulsive ...

Feb. 6 (UPI) --European Union regulators said Friday that TikTok may be in violation of the Digital Services Act due to the risk it poses for addictive and compulsive behavior. The European Commission ...

European Union regulators said the app’s infinite scroll and personalized algorithm led to “compulsive” behavior, especially among children. By Adam Satariano Reporting from London TikTok’s endless ...

What Does It Mean to Be Obsessive? What Does It Mean to Have OCD? How to Tell the Difference Coping Tips Have you ever heard someone say I'm so OCD to describe a strong desire for neatness? Despite ...

Sanders is a novelist and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. I was a tenured professor, a published novelist, and a married father of two sons when I lost everything — because of a drug I was prescribed ...

Sometimes the best purchases aren’t planned—they’re discovered. In ecommerce, those small moments of curiosity—when a shopper clicks “add to cart” on something unexpected—can define how connected they ...