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Here’s the scene: You’re catching up with a friend over coffee when your elbow clips your cup, sending espresso all over her brand-new phone. You feel awful. You mop up the spill, apologize five times, and bolt—then avoid her for days, turning a ruined phone into a damaged friendship.
The problem isn’t that you feel awful. It’s that awful doesn’t give you ...
You’ve spent Monday through Friday running on five hours of sleep, working late nights and waking up early just to do it all over again. On Saturday, you get 12 glorious hours of shut-eye and feel instantly refreshed when you wake up. You’re all caught up on your sleep, right?
Actually, not quite. The idea that a single morning or weekend spent logging extra hours i...
Three psychology professors will receive funds to support new projects in fall 2026. Projects will teach the science of memory, train undergraduates to deliver clinical interventions, and present a reflective model for viewing therapeutic processes with young people.
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Generative Behaviors as Key Targets for Cognitive Models
Judith E. Fan
Human behavior is fundamentally generative: People create pictures, write stories, compose music, and engage in conversation. Traditional approa...
Back in the 1950s when Dr. Kelly Brownell was a young boy, snacking didn’t really exist.
“Children ate three meals and maybe one snack,” he says. And typically that snack occurred in one place: at home. “Nobody ate in their automobile. Maybe if you took a lon...