For decades, psychologists and neuroscientists have propagated a dismal picture of the human mind. We are told that far from being rational, most of what we think and do is propelled by irrational ...

The human capacity to forget is not merely a failure of memory but a fundamental adaptive mechanism. Memory suppression and intentional forgetting involve the active inhibition of unwanted or ...

What makes us who we are? Is it our personal choices, or the traditions quietly passed down through generations? Psychology often asks these questions through theories of identity, memory, and ...

Everyone is constantly evolving, grappling with new issues, and crafting new experiences in their daily lives, which can make it hard to pause and take a second for mindfulness. They may learn a ...