Psychology

Psychology

Fighting willpower’s catch-22

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

Psychology

Babies lip-read before talking

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

Psychology

Big score for the hot hand

Hot hands exist in professional volleyball and influence game strategy.

Psychology

Europeans’ heartfelt ignorance

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

Psychology

Face deficit holds object lesson

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

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.

Psychology

Skateboarders rock physics

Skateboarding develops intuition about slope speeds unavailable to most people.

Psychology

‘Gorilla man’ goes unheard

Paying attention to what others say can make listeners totally unaware of unexpected sounds.

Psychology

Digital bounty hunters unleashed

Internet technique shows promise as fast way to mobilize huge problem-solving teams.

Psychology

Learning to walk on err

Flub-inducing treadmill tasks aid motor learning, with rehab implications.

Psychology

Teen daters pal up to the bottle

Buddies of boyfriends and girlfriends push teens toward or away from booze.

Psychology

Same face, different person

Photos of a stranger’s mug can look like many unfamiliar people to an observer, complicating facial recognition research.