Joseph Ferrari has a nickname for procrastinators — procs — and he’s been studying them for 40 years. He became fascinated with procrastination when he was working on a PhD in experimental psychology ...

In early 2023, Mahzarin Banaji was meeting with her student Tessa Charlesworth (who is now at Northwestern University) when the topic of ChatGPT arose. Banaji had heard of the tool but hadn’t yet ...

Simine Vazire, editor-in-chief of the Association for Psychological Science’s journal Psychological Science and professor of psychology at the University of Melbourne, is this year’s recipient for the ...

Image above: Word cloud of all individual risky choices as reported by participants from the Psychological Science study. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177 ...

Although memory has been extensively studied since the 19 th century and the beginning of psychological research, gaps in understanding remain. The key mechanisms that impact remembering or forgetting ...

Imagine standing at a crossroads with both the red and green lights on. Do you go, or do you stop? The uncertainty feels paralyzing. This mental tug-of-war is a daily reality for many experiencing ...

Exposure therapy, in which patients gradually face the things and situations they fear, is among the most effective treatments for anxiety disorders, yet it remains underutilized (Pittig, Kotter, & ...

A choice was made to include each word in this sentence. Every message, even the most mundane, is crafted with a specific frame in mind that impacts how the message is perceived. The study of framing ...

The autism spectrum includes people with a wide range of sensory and social differences, leading to a common refrain within the autism community: “If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one ...

Many studies show that sexual attraction in long-term relationships decreases over time. Is this decline inevitable? Are we doomed to be not as into our partners as we were in the honeymoon period?

Have you ever found yourself wondering if someone you’re interested in feels the same way about you? If they laugh at your jokes, recent research suggests that it might be a sign that they’re into you ...

What is the logic behind using trigger warnings? Do they improve learning outcomes? In this episode, Under the Cortex hosts Victoria Bridgland of Flinders University to explore her meta-analysis ...