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Boosting New Memories With Wakeful Resting
Too often our memory starts acting like a particularly porous sieve: all the important fragments that should be caught and preserved somehow just disappear. So armed with pencils and bolstered by caffeine, legions of adults
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Silly Sports Rituals? Think Again
Five days left, 5 psychological science highlights: Counting down to the Olympic Opening Ceremony, with research insights on sports and performance. #5. Have you seen Michelle Jenneke’s prerace routine? How about Stephanie Rice before she
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A Climate for Conspiracy: Imaginary Plots and Global Warming
The Huffington Post: I am writing this article knowing full well that it will be used as evidence against me — evidence that I have been duped by a powerful cabal, a vast conspiracy to…
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Give Time to Feel Less Time-Squeeze
Scientific American: Meetings, calls, kids, dogs, errands, exercise—and all those emails! Who doesn’t feel starved for time these days? But a new study suggests that you can feel like you have more time—by donating some
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What Should You Look For In A Marriage Partner?
Business Insider: How do you know who to marry? Should you just trust your feelings or pick the person who “looks good on paper”? Luckily, science has answers for us: Find someone who you idealize
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about new research published in Psychological Science examining the factors that influence early literacy. The Causal Role of Phoneme Awareness and Letter-Sound Knowledge in Learning to Read: Combining Intervention Studies With Mediation Analyses Charles
