Acting on impulse doesn’t have to define you — here’s how to build in safeguards and regain a sense of control. After a colossal fight with your honey, you head out for the night and end up getting ...

Research has explored the relationship between high impulsivity and boredom, in an effort to find out what drives rash and sometimes unhealthy decisions. Research at the University of Portsmouth has ...

Impulsivity is often connected to reckless decisions and a lack of self-control; however, it has played a crucial role in human evolution (Fenneman and Frankenhuis, 2020). It has influenced survival, ...

Recently, psychologists have stepped outside of the clinical setting and have accumulated research on how the dark side of human nature varies in the general population. What has become quite clear is ...

We can all act on an impulse, with some seemingly doing it more often and others less. Psychologists have been studying impulsivity as a personality trait since the 1930s and have linked impulsivity ...