Danny, a 43-year-old store manager, was stopped by the police for doing an illegal U-turn across a busy highway. As he explained, "Our lanes weren’t moving at all, and it was going to take forever to ...

The authors of a new study have identified distinct personality profiles of people with impulsivity, with different attributes that influence whether a person engages in, or avoids, high-risk drinking ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a recent article published in the journal Translational Psychiatry, researchers in Germany and the Netherlands explored the links between impulsivity in adults without diagnosed mental disorders ...

Impulsivity is one of the core features of ADHD, especially when diagnosticians are evaluating individuals for ADHD Hyperactive-Impulsive Type and/or ADHD Combined Type (a combination of inattentive, ...

Impulsivity numbers among the core symptom domains of ADHD, though it takes up only four of the 18 symptoms in the diagnostic criteria: Talks excessively in social situations Has difficulty waiting ...

DARIEN, IL – A new study to be presented at the SLEEP 2025 annual meeting found that adolescents who prefer to sleep and wake up later (“night owls”) reported greater impulsivity than those who prefer ...

A study in eNeuro finds that impulsivity does not predict cocaine addiction, but prolonged drug use alters brain circuits and heightens impulsive behavior. Study: Cocaine self-administration increases ...

Men with lifelong premature ejaculation tend to score higher on measures of impulsivity, suggesting that difficulties with self-control may contribute to the severity of this common sexual dysfunction ...