Mind

Imagine you are the leader of a large country. A passenger plane has been hijacked over your country’s airspace and is heading toward the most…
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Pedagogic literature usually emphasizes the importance of being proactive rather than reactive. It is suggested that people who are reactive are controlled by circumstances or…
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Our lab studies how well babies can remember objects. The test that we have developed is a baby-friendly version of the card game Memory, where…
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Even though we spend about a third of our lives asleep, the function of sleep is still not fully understood. One of the leading hypotheses…
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Does power corrupt? This is a common saying, and it is often brought up when people with power in our society do something immoral. For…
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College can be a stressful time as students adjust to increasing autonomy and responsibilities, resulting in the rising and prevalence of poor mental health including heightened…
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The field of social neuroscience has long been interested in how the brain supports our ability to cooperate. Most of what we know to date,…
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“I’m a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall Michael, if he is to be shot in the head by a police officer,…
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Have you ever repeated a phone number over and over in your mind in order to remember it, yet forgot it anyway while dialing? This…
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Our memory of personally experienced events is central to our identity and our sense of self. When remembering, we create an image of our experience…
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Roughly 14 percent of the United States’ citizenry is comprised of individuals born outside of the United States who have immigrated to the U.S. A…
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