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The integration of auditory and visual cues supports efficient speech and emotion perception, yet little is known about how emotional salience interacts with temporal congruency during audiovisual binding. In this study…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. The tradwife trend is having a moment. Tradwives, or “traditional wives,” hold the belief that women should care for the household, while men should provide…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Devon Frye For most of my career in the ER, I was good at asking the right questions. When a patient presented with chest pain, I always asked, “When did it start? Does it radiate? Any…
I ranked 56th out of one million students on Türkiye's university entrance exam, earned a master's degree from Harvard as a Fulbright and TEV scholar, and completed my Ph.D. at Cambridge, with a year as a visiting PhD…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. Weâve all been here. Youâre standing in the kitchen, dinner is half-cooked, and your child wanders in, drops his arms like lead weights, and lets out those two…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. Mel Robbins' book Let Them is still a bestseller nearly two years after publication. The concept struck a chord with millions of people. This two-word phrase has…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Devon Frye Social connections are the lifeblood of what it means to be human. Relationships are an integral part—if not the integral part—of the human experience. We know this is true…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. Every semester, in my Power and Influence course, a familiar moment arrives. We are deep into a negotiation exercise or a role‑play designed to surface real…
We compare ourselves with other people. We do so in different ways, in different situations. We may or may not be aware of the comparisons we make. We may or may not realize, for good or ill, how these comparisons affect…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Devon Frye In my previous post, I wrote about my client Dennis’s painful memories of his incendiary response to a crisis that his son, Luke, was in the midst of during high school. We…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk I was recently speaking with someone about her experience as an employee for a large organization in the corporate world. Her main memory was that it was confusing and…
A long-term study challenges one of society's biggest assumptions about relationships and happiness.
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk For children, summer often means freedom: no homework, no early alarms, and more time to relax, travel, and spend time with family and friends. For co-parents, however…
I routinely offer a brief phone chat with prospective clients—I explain our approach, hear about the concern that has led them to consider therapy, and build positive expectations about potential outcomes. But I had…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk There is a widely told story about a visitor who goes to the circus and asks the elephant trainer why the animal can be controlled by just a stake in the ground and a…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Devon Frye We’ve all heard them. Queer. F*g. D*ke. These LGBTQ slurs are disturbingly common in everyday vernacular. They are fixtures in society. But what motivates people to use LGBTQ…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk Misogyny is often imagined as obvious hostility toward women: harassment, violence, discrimination, or openly declaring that women are less capable than men. But misogyny…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk Although we know it’s a myth, as we age, many of us continue to search for the proverbial fountain of youth so that we can turn back the clock, or age more slowly. What…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan Maybe you shouldn't throw away that old iPod. A recent Harvard Gazette article on the "tech-lash" caught my attention. It was built around an interview with the analyst…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Devon Frye You're mid-sentence in one language when a word from another shows up instead. Or you reach for a word in your first language and find it in your second one first. Or you…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk Most humans no longer experience artificial intelligence (AI) as dramatic. What felt like a grand technological revolution in 2022 is gradually becoming a standard asset…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader New research shows that people with access to AI-generated answers are less willing to admit "I don't know," even when those answers are wrong. In the study…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader Most of us remember the first time we met the important people in our lives: from our boss to our beau to our best friend. First impressions are surprisingly enduring…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader Co-authored by Lena Wang, Haiying Kang, Joe Jiang and March To Choosing a career is not easy; it involves a complex psychological process. People need to figure out…
Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader Every two people are, by definition, different. Even identical twins have conflict. For women especially, the dominant American culture taught many of us to be nice and…
Psychology says people who don't talk politely to others aren't always trying to hurt or insult people. Psychology explains that speech patterns can be shaped by stress, emotions, personality, habits, ...
A degree in business psychology provides more than just a pathway into a specific career. It equips graduates with practical, transferable skills that can be applied across a wide range of roles and ...
Brain health is central to Africaâs development, but current financing and policy frameworks remain poorly matched to the scale and distribution of need. Upstream economic risks, such as poverty, inequality, food…
In order to improve their performance, musicians devote thousands of hours to practising their instrument. However, how practise shapes the behaviour of muscles involved in music-making is not yet fully understood. Using…
Emotion dysregulation (ED) is a core transdiagnostic feature of several psychiatric disorders, including borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. These ED disorders…
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