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Cognitive Psychology
By developing skills like divergent thinking and collaboration in the workforce, creativity training has the potential to unlock revolutionary ideas.
Don’t worry that your dog’s world is visually drab.
When you can't enter flow, you can still lean on your internal rhythm.
Sleep less, sleep less, sleep more.
To prevent overloading the memory system, the brain may have a mechanism that tosses out certain types of memories.
What you see is what you hear.
Sight helps you see a room, but interoception lets you sense it from inside your own body.
The AI is helping Twitter users plot movies, design meal plans, and more.
Find your wallet or keys — or a nuclear submarine.
Terrified of blushing? You might have erythrophobia.
"In our studies, people who are more intelligent don’t mind wander so often when the task is hard but can do it more when tasks are easy."
Caffeine does something, but it's not clear exactly what.
"Downward counterfactual thinking" — that is, imagining how things could be worse — is a quick and easy way to boost your well-being and gratitude.
The "love hormone" might be an unexplored treatment for Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
Their neurons are very different from "normal" people.
The answer may depend on your lifestyle.
Inside the metaverse, your emotions and physical responses will be monitored, and AI will use that data to influence you in real time. Is that essentially mind control?
The researchers suggest that their results demonstrate intelligence in silico.
Psychologists are exploring this creepy feeling of having already lived through an experience before.
Fiona Broome remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s (he didn't). Oddly, many people had the same false memory.
People think that unhappiness causes our minds to wander, but what if the causation goes the other way?
If you're trying to hide how you feel about something, be careful with your hands.
Sigmund Freud developed the decidedly unscientific principles of psychoanalysis in a time when most psychologists were trying to join the ranks of chemists and medical doctors.
Instead of liberation, the sexual revolution has led some people, particularly men, to be addicted to porn.
For many people, a challenge to their worldview feels like an attack on their personal identity.
What creates our private, inner universes is still a mystery.
A clever neuroscience experiment shows that the "other-race effect" is likely due to a lack of experience and perceptual expertise rather than racism.
Research shows how temperature can be used to manipulate circadian rhythms.