By bringing attention to the inconsistencies in our minds, cognitive dissonance may present an opportunity for growth. People who feel it could realize, for example, that they need to update their ...

Cognitive reappraisal restores access to rational thinking. For example, in a set of studies of students with intense math anxiety, those who were exposed to a reappraisal strategy during a math ...

The first chapter, for example, concludes by asking if cognitive psychology needs the brain and if neuroscience needs cognitive psychology. Readers will be relieved to know that the answer to both ...

Welcome to the cognitive psychology graduate program, offered by the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. Our primary goal is to train a new generation of ...

Understanding the psychology behind financial decisions is crucial for effective money management. Cognitive biases like loss aversion, anchoring effect, and the illusion of wealth can significantly ...

Our goal at the Cognitive Development Center is to understand thinking and how it changes with development. We work with infants, children, and adolescents to explore the development of executive ...

The 21st century has seen the beginnings of a new revolution in psychology, one in which novel questions have been posed, research methods devised, and sub-fields created. It is an exciting time for ...

Cognitive neuroscience is the field of study focusing on the neural substrates of mental processes. It is at the intersection of psychology and neuroscience, but also overlaps with physiological ...

Research in applied cognitive and brain sciences takes a use-inspired approach to cognitive neuroscience. The psychology department houses a number of renown experts and labs that focus on cognitive ...