The Future Is Now: Why We Can’t Resist the Pull of What Comes Next
Why are humans addicted to daydreams about the future? Is it survival instinct—or an unrecognized yearning for the past?
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There’s a Name for Why We Give Too Much Weight to the Opinions of Others
And it's called equality bias.
Shelf Help: ‘Why Does the Other Line Always Move Faster? The Myths and Misery, Secrets and Psychology of Waiting in Line’
A lens for examining one of life's biggest questions.
The Psychological Impact of Driving Among Police Cars
Examining that jumpy feeling you get when a cop car pulls up behind you—and you've done nothing wrong.
Go Ahead, #ShoutYourAbortion—Research Supports You
Abortions aren't inherently shameful, and we have some choice in what kind of experience we make for those who get them.
Psychology Experiments’ Questionable Results
An expansive new project is able to replicate results from fewer than half of its psychology experiments in question.
Five Studies: To Sleep, Perchance to Cheer Up
On the powerful relationship between insomnia and depression.
What’s the Right Way to Talk About Psychology?
Frontiers in Psychology just published a damning list of terms that researchers abuse. What can journalists learn from it?