For decades, addiction treatment in the United States has relied on a familiar explanation when people relapse: recovery is hard, addiction is chronic and setbacks are part of the process. That ...

I conducted a simple analysis of papers published in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors—a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Psychological Association’s Division 50 (Society of Addiction ...

Recent research published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships provides evidence that our early relationship ...

When most people hear the word addiction, they picture someone whose life has visibly unravelled. Yet addiction is often hidden in plain sight – affecting people in workplaces, schools, sporting clubs ...

Avery is vice chair for addiction psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine and host of the podcast Thriving With Addiction. I’m used to hearing from people who disagree with me about addiction. I wasn’t ...

Approval-seeking isn't a confidence problem — it's a conditioning pattern. A psychologist explains the one habit that actually interrupts the loop.

What happens in the minds of people who use the internet addictively? Prof. Dr. Matthias Brand from the University of Duisburg-Essen and his team want to find out. Since 2020, the scientists have ...

Researchers surveyed 522 adults to investigate how different attachment styles relate to romantic relationship addiction. The ...