Sigmund Freud described the mind as an iceberg with the unconscious mind far exceeding the visible part above the surface. Source: Courtesy of Damian Pang, incorporating images from Annie Spratt ...

Update: The event has reached capacity, but it may be viewed live online at www.wm.edu/lecture/watch - Ed. Picture this: You’re standing in a garden on a gorgeous ...

What really happens when people try to communicate with one another? Specifically, when one person gets up in front of lots of other people and tries to inspire, inform, motivate, teach, change, or ...

Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality defines the unconscious mind as an accumulation of feelings, thoughts, urges, desires, and memories that are outside your own conscious awareness.

"We set out to test whether the unconscious mind could catch a liar – even when the conscious mind failed," she says. The researchers first had 72 participants watch videos of "suspects" in a ...

What do our dreams mean, and why are we fascinated by them? Newsweek explores the meaning of dreams in a new Special Edition, Spiritual Living, The Secret to Peace and Happiness. This article, by ...

We often feel like our actions result from deliberate reasoning and explicit, carefully-orchestrated intentions, but psychologists have been telling us otherwise for decades. Freud famously suggested ...

“Have you not noticed that, often, what was dark and perplexing to you the night before,” the inventor Alexander Graham Bell once asked, “is found to be perfectly solved the next morning?” Probably, ...

Your brain doesn't like to keep secrets. Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, have shown that writing down secrets in a journal or telling a doctor your secrets actually decreases the level of ...