Psychology

The ritual goes a little bit like this. Once or twice a month, I prance expectantly into my little bathroom and greet my face in the mirror. In the private…

Even though I was raised Catholic, for most of my adult life, I didn’t pay religion much heed. Like many scientists, I assumed it was built on opinion,…

The team designed their cursor game to be challenging for the monkeys but still simple to analyze. Motion-capture cameras tracked the monkeys’ arm motion,…

As recently as two months ago, the 5-mile drive from the heart of Washington, DC, to my home in Arlington, Virginia, consistently took less than 10 minutes…

In a 2018 study on friendship, Jeffrey Hall, an associate professor in communication studies at the University of Kansas, discovered that it takes about 50…

Since the early 20th century, the name of the Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov has been associated with the idea of brainwashing. Pavlov’s…

Diana Winston, director of mindfulness education at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC), notes that there is a lot of research on mindfulness,…

Something about the future defeats our imaginative capacity. “Present self screws over future self,” says Tim Pychyl, a psychologist at Carleton University…

If you’re anything like me, at some point in your life your morning routine may have looked something like this: Wake up, roll around in bed, contemplate…

A person’s genetic sleep traits combine to create a chronotype. An “early chronotype” is essentially a morning person, eager to wake up with the sun and head…