Mind

Reading our partner’s name in a text message can immediately elicit emotions like happiness. In contrast, reading the name of a rival in an email…
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Researchers have been studying parenting styles since the early 20th century. The way in which parents raise and socialize their children has an effect on…
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Visual information is transmitted to the brain through two types of light-sensing cells (rods and cones) located across the retina. The fovea, a small central…
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The odds of academic success are stacked against youth with overweight and obesity. On average, youth with higher weight do more poorly in school and…
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For more than 50 years now, doctors have known that the hippocampus is important for memory in humans. Patients with hippocampal damage presented with the…
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Nearly half of first-time marriages end in divorce (Copen, Daniels, Vespa, & Mosher, 2012) and more than one-third of marriages are relationally distressed at any…
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In Stephen King’s 1981 novel Cujo (adapted to film in 1983), a boy and his mother are trapped in their car as a rabid Saint…
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We see the most detail in the center of our visual field. This region is called the fovea: it is most densely packed with receptors…
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Is distrust the opposite of trust? No, say American researchers. Both feelings have their own origins, and only one is influenced by genes. Everyone has…
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People tend to trust that their perception of the world accurately reflects reality. However, work in psychology and neuroscience has suggested that our minds often…
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Australian researchers believe that mental well-being and illnesses such as depression or anxiety are separate constructs. They came to this conclusion after testing the processing…
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