Psychologists define meaning as the feeling that one’s life is significant, coherent, and purposeful, says Constantine Sedikides, a psychologist at the University of Southampton, in the U.K. And many ...

Podcast: This episode explores whether children’s weaker selective attention is a hidden strength by addressing findings on attention, memory, and childhood learning.

Scientific research may not have evidence of the sacred, but there is a large body of work that shows the positive effects of ...

Core faculty of the Consortium for Interacting Minds at Dartmouth (Left to right: Luke Chang, Kiara Sanchez, Mark Thornton, Thalia Wheatley, and Arjen Stolk). Photo credit: Katie Lenhart. Janet Taylor ...

The researchers anticipated that participants with high levels of negative emotionality or neuroticism would have higher ...

A couple sits together on a sunny park bench. He appears to be studying the passing clouds; she’s absorbed in a novel. Some passersby might think, How sweet. Others might see them as ...

Humans are pretty good at guessing whether a towering stack of dishes in the sink will topple over or where a pool ball will go when a cue hits it. We evolved this kind of ...