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Don’t Let Love Take Over Your Life
If you have a romantic partner, maybe you’ve noticed that you two spend an awful lot of time together—and that you haven’t seen other people quite as much as you’d like. Or if you’re single (and many of your friends aren’t), you might have gotten the eerie feeling that I sometimes do: that you’re in a deserted town, as if you woke one morning to find the houses all empty, the stores boarded up. Where’d everyone go? Either way, that feeling might not just be in your head.
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Why We Think Working Hard Makes You a Good Person
Working hard shows others that we're reliable. But work for work's sake has taken over, leading to burnout and inefficiency. Social psychologist Azim Shariff analyzes the morality of work. ...
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on peer beliefs, thinking beyond COVID-19, visual perception in young infants, adaptive encoding speed in working memory, and much more.
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Feeling Young at Heart Comes With Well-Being Benefits
Podcast: Markus Wettstein of Humboldt University of Berlin joins this episode to discuss subjective age and its implications for health benefits, general well-being, and possible cross-cultural differences.
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Cognitive Psychologist Endel Tulving Shed Light on How Human Memory Functions
University of Toronto psychologist Endel Tulving came up with numerous paradigm-shifting theories about how memory functions, and backed them up years later using human studies. “He was one of the very top scientists of memory in the last hundred years,” says his colleague Fergus Craik, a neuropsychologist and University of Toronto professor emeritus. “He got us to understand memory in the way we think of it today.” In his most-cited work, a chapter from the 1972 book Organization of Memory, which he co-edited, Dr.
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Is Mental Time Travel Good for Us?
In our fast-paced modern lives, we are increasingly encouraged to stop and focus on the present. And there are tangible advantages. Studies on the effects of mindfulness and meditation — practices that gear people’s cognitive capacities towards the present moment — have pointed to reduced stress, increased focus and less emotional reactivity. As a result, mindfulness has become a billion-dollar industry that promises to alleviate all manner of psychological ills.
