Forgetting isn't failure; it's fuel. Learn how strategic forgetfulness can actually help your memory—and your ...

Past neuroscience and psychology studies have shown that after the human brain encodes specific events or information, it can ...

A new study published in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin has found that individuals high in narcissism ...

Freud’s words in 1923: "I belong to the race that in the Middle Ages was blamed for all the plagues, and such experiences ...

The first cohort of editorial fellows joined APS in April 2024, bringing their rich array of experiences and backgrounds to ...

Everyday life for 8-year-old Dhyana Levey seemed no different from that of her peers. She went to school on the weekdays, ...

One of the signs your body is rejecting your partner, according to psychology, is having physical reactions other than ...

New research suggests adding this strategy into your warmup routine could counteract a night of poor sleep, even before a ...

The study of the human condition has long been fragmented into distinct silos, dividing the humanities from the interpretive social sciences. While each of these disciplines addresses vital questions ...

Though we learn so much during our first years of life, we can't, as adults, remember specific events from that time. Researchers have long believed we don't hold onto these experiences because the ...

Recent findings suggest that memories are stored in the body, not just the brain. Does that mean our "self" is too?