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Priming the Brain to Learn
The human brain is skilled at categorizing. People can quickly recognize a new variation of something they’ve seen before, like a dog, a chair, a jacket, or a lamp. We do this even when we’ve
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The Effortless Way to Dramatically Improve Your Memory, Backed by Science
Say you need to remember something important. Information from a meeting where taking notes wasn’t possible. A pitch you’ll make to investors. A presentation you’ll make to employees. So you take mental notes, or review written notes. You
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Outnumbered: People Overestimate the Presence of Symbolically Threatening Groups
People commonly exaggerate the presence of certain groups simply because they are perceived as ideologically different.
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Use This Simple Mental Trick to Save More Money
Americans like to spend. Unfortunately, 70% of Americans admit to bad spending habits, leading them to overspend by nearly $7,500 per year. Unless we change our spending habits and learn how to save, we will soon be
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Loneliness Is a Public Health Emergency. Here’s What Helps, According to Experts
When the pandemic first began, many experts feared that even people who managed to avoid the virus would suffer from unprecedented levels of loneliness. What would happen when millions of people were told to stay
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on perceptual learning, prejudice, how the mind represents physical states, moralistic punishment, feelings, blindness and visual memory, perceptions of threat, and spatial navigation and reorientation.