A recent experiment conducted in the Milan subway system suggests that the presence of a costumed superhero can significantly ...

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A study published in Consciousness and Cognition indicates that the sense of knowing what will happen next during déjà vu is ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: RichVintage/Getty Images Psychology is a relatively young science. The first person to ...

I have a confession to make. Although our group of bloggers is described as "a band of philosophers," I'm faking the funk, so to speak. In real life, I'm a psychologist through and through. So I'm ...

The flow of astonishing research findings with business implications has never been greater. Just about every day, we hear about some counterintuitive study from behavioral economics or social ...

A new documentary series on the study challenges us to reimagine what we’ve learned The summer before his freshmen year of college, in 1971, Clay Ramsay lived with a few buddies just a few steps from ...

n I was shocked and saddened to see Daniel Stein’s letter (“Required psychology experiments are unfair,” Sept. 13, p. 6) concerning the required participation in psychology research. Mr. Stein is very ...

Daniel Kahneman is perhaps the world's leading psychologist. A Nobel Prize winner and a professor emeritus at Princeton University, he may also be the field's foremost educator. His book, Thinking, ...