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Erik Fitzpatrick/Flickr Why a Healthy Person's Perception of Time Is Inaccurate
People with normal brains feel the hours pass more slowly than they really do, but new research illuminates the ways this can be manipulated.
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Walt Stoneburner/Flickr The Value of Remembering Ordinary Moments
Though writing down daily events may seem mundane, participants in a recent study were happy to have records of them in the future.
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d26b73/Flickr Seeing Red
How the color of passion, romance, and anger can influence behavior
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz/Flickr The Psychological Comforts of Storytelling
Why, throughout human history, have people been so drawn to fiction?
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Yuya Shino / Reuters Let the Body Rest, for the Sake of the Brain
Sleep deprivation can take a heavy mental toll.
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Cris Kelly/Shutterstock For a Better Brain, Learn Another Language
The cognitive benefits of multilingualism
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KPG_Payless/Shutterstock Online Relationships Are Real
Social media filters relationships whether we like it or not, and many young people no longer draw a distinction between real and digital interactions.
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Alexandre Normand/Flickr How Environment Can Boost Creativity
Dim lighting and ambient noise may lead to more out-of-the-box ideas.
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Michael Button/Flickr The Beauty-Happiness Connection
Looking at lovely things—and people—can improve quality of life
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Luke MacGregor/Reuters To Work Better, Work Less
Toiling away for more hours diminishes productivity. Why do so many do it anyway?
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Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters Who Wins in the Name Game?
From dating to job prospects, a name has remarkable power over the path of its owner's life.
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Nayu Kim/flickr The Importance of Eating Together
Family dinners build relationships, and help kids do better in school.
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Wikimedia Commons Can Creativity Be Learned?
Prevailing theories on creativity focus on methodology, or amount of practice. But new studies suggest artistic talent may be more hard-wired than we thought.
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Franz Hanfstaengl/Wikimedia The Romantic Power of Music
Recent studies show that musical ability might be a sexually selected trait.
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Chris Helgren/Reuters The Ethics of Erasing Bad Memories
Though the emerging possibility of deleting traumatic memories could provide some people relief, the question remains whether it would fundamentally change who they are.
