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Seeing and Perceiving
Considered one of the world’s most influential cognitive psychologists, Anne Treisman developed a classic psychological model of human visual attention. The feature integration theory of attention proposes a two-stage model for our perception of objects. The
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One question reveals: Are you a narcissist?
USA TODAY: If you are a narcissist, you probably think this story is about you, and you are correct (as you so often are – right?). That kind of thinking makes it quite easy for
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What’s in a profile picture? Just about everything, actually.
The Washington Post: Love is definitely not blind, according to new statistics from the dating site OkCupid. In fact, not much online is: Facebook-friending, Twitter-sending — even professional networking is dictated, to an alarmingly huge degree, by
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Why Power in the Workplace Makes People Feel They Control Time
The Wall Street Journal: When it comes to time, people in power believe they have more of it at their disposal than others. In reality, time is a great equalizer. Minutes tick by at the
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The Handiest Tool in the World
The Huffington Post: Long before we had inches and centimeters, we had hands. The breadth of a man’s hand was the metric of choice at least as far back as ancient Egypt, and this bodily
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The Process of Problem Solving
People encounter problems every day. Some problems, such as solving the daily Sudoku puzzle, are enjoyable, while others, like figuring out how to retrieve the keys you just locked in the car, are not. Although
