Using imagery can help people keep their memories vivid for longer, but for those with PTSD, a strong sense of imagery could ...

With creativity, if you don’t use it, it starts to go away,” Robert Sternberg, a Cornell University professor of psychology, told me. Sternberg, who studies human creativity and intelligence, argues ...

Podcast: Do young children prefer to rely on their memory, or do they take the easier route and use external aids like lists ...

So here I am, nearly 375 years after Quakerism’s founding, asking my kids questions, giving them bounded autonomy, and nudging them to invest in their strengths and be stewards of their community—all ...

A different and perhaps more inventive tack entails accepting the inevitability of children spending time online and prodding them to become their own fact-checkers. Researchers at the University of ...

You’re standing in line at the supermarket or drugstore when a stranger speaks up. … In some scenarios, such as an upcoming work or networking event, people can prepare ahead of time for the expected ...

Download (PDF) an overview of Psychological Science in the Public Interest by Stephen J. Ceci and Robert A. Bjork. Send proposals to the PSPI Editorial Office.

Melissa Smith brings a lifetime of fascination with robotics and human-computer interaction to her work as a senior user experience (UX) researcher at Stadia, Google’s gaming platform.

A sample of research on motivation and pleasure deficits, rural suicide, the role of affective cognition in trauma and PTSD-related drinking, and much more.

As viewers get to know the group, they learn that Jaclyn was the ring leader in school. On this vacation, she assumes that role again, paying for the trip and deciding when the group goes out to party ...

"The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement," claimed the philosopher Karl Popper. He was writing about the dangers of dogma in science – but his words could equally apply to anyone's ...

To say that long-distance runners embrace difficulty is to say the obvious. When you watch many thousands of people happily push themselves through a race that they might not even be allowed to finish ...