Psychology

  1. Psychology

    Visions For All

    People who report vivid religious experiences may hold clues to nonpsychotic hallucinations.

    By
  2. Psychology

    Pi master’s storied recall

    Remembering more than 60,000 consecutive numbers takes exhaustive practice at spinning yarns.

    By
  3. Psychology

    Kids flex cultural muscles

    Young children, but not chimps or monkeys, generate collective leaps of knowledge.

    By
  4. Psychology

    Babies catch words early

    Vocabulary learning starts when babies can barely babble.

    By
  5. Psychology

    Vodka delivers shot of creativity

    Alcohol intoxication raises men’s performance on a test of verbal ingenuity.

    By
  6. Psychology

    Fighting willpower’s catch-22

    Avoiding daily temptations works better than using willpower, which has oddly unintended effects.

    By
  7. Psychology

    Babies lip-read before talking

    Tots acquire the gift of gab by matching adults’ mouth movements to spoken words.

    By
  8. Psychology

    Big score for the hot hand

    Hot hands exist in professional volleyball and influence game strategy.

    By
  9. Psychology

    Europeans’ heartfelt ignorance

    Many people in nine countries don't know how to recognize or react to heart attacks and strokes.

    By
  10. Psychology

    Face deficit holds object lesson

    A brain-damaged man yields controversial clues to how people identify complex objects.

    By
  11. Psychology

    Babies may benefit from moms’ lasting melancholy

    Fetuses pick up on maternal depression and thrive after birth if mothers don’t get better, a new study suggests.

    By
  12. Psychology

    Skateboarders rock physics

    Skateboarding develops intuition about slope speeds unavailable to most people.

    By