Have you ever wished that you could increase your attention span? It happens to the best of us. You’re sitting in class or in a meeting and you suddenly find yourself daydreaming, losing focus, and […]
We all know that regular exercise is good for your body, but there is a growing body of evidence that physical activity is also good for your brain. In recent years, a number of studies […]
You probably realize that there are subtle cognitive and motivation biases that influence your perceptions and decisions. Yet if you are like most people, you also tend to notice those biases more in other people […]
All of us make bad decisions from time to time. The judgments and choices you make each day, no matter how big or how small, are all influenced by a wide variety of biases, prejudices, […]
What strategies can you use to encourage people to work harder and increase achievement? Could your beliefs about intelligence influence how hard you work? According to the results of one study, simply telling people that […]
Cognitive psychology is the area of psychology that focuses on internal mental processes. Such processes include thinking, decision-making, problem-solving, language, attention, and memory. This field is often considered part of the larger field of cognitive […]
IQ has been a hot topic in psychology, with experts debating everything from how intelligence should be measured to the very nature of intelligence itself. The question of whether or not you can increase your […]
Psychology research often yields surprising insights into how the mind works. Why is it that people do the things they do? This question has fascinated people for thousands of years. Thanks to modern psychology research, […]
The projection bias is a type of cognitive bias that involves overestimating the degree to which other people agree with us. People tend to assume that others think, feel, believe, and behave much like they […]
I’m always on the hunt for new memory-boosting strategies, so this recent study caught my eye. According to researchers at the University of Waterloo, drawing pictures of things that you need to remember can be […]
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