When a person goes through a traumatic experience, they often find themselves thinking that what happened could have been ...

We must move beyond the aspiration for autonomy to action for its sake. Noticing that we are at risk and resisting the danger ...

The scene, from a Netflix documentary series released in 2020, recreates a highly cited 2007 study 1, which found that babies ...

Compartmentalization is an advanced mental skill used by people in demanding, high-risk public safety occupations.

A few years ago I wrote about digital-induced amnesia—the erosion of memory that occurs as we outsource thinking to our devices. I later reflected on technostress, the strain that occurs as those ...

A recent New Yorker article, “Is Cognitive Dissonance Actually a Thing?”, strongly implies that the answer to that question is “No.” The article arrived at this answer by considering a 1956 ...

Hawaii women’s basketball guard Bailey Flavell was named the Big West Freshman of the Year today. The conference announced its season awards with UH sophomore center Ritorya Tamilo earning the Big ...

Source: Walther, ChatGPT, 2026 / OpenAI There's a particular kind of exhaustion that comes not from overwork, but from underuse. Muscles atrophy in casts. Your sense of direction dissolves the moment ...

AI use can speed up many tasks; for example, analyzing complex data. However, using AI to complete a task at work or for a hobby could lead to so-called cognitive offloading. Cognitive offloading ...

Source: Amy/Pixabay It goes without saying (recognizing I’m about to say it…) that sleep is important. Sleep is a basic requirement for life and is the cornerstone of physical and mental health, ...

An AP Economics teacher assigned a three-page PDF on supply and demand. The next day, the class discussion was unsettling. Every student was making identical points, using the same examples, and ...