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The Growing Belief in ‘Love at First Sight’
The idea seems so old-fashioned, so sentimental: that you could fall for someone “at first sight,” deeply and instantly. It’s straight out of the classic romance dramas—Jack’s gaze freezing when he sees Rose on the Titanic’s deck; The Notebook’s Noah lighting up and asking, “Who’s this girl?” when he spies Allie across the amusement park. As a general rule, the stuff of popular love stories is not the stuff of real life. We know this, right? ... But once Gesselman stepped back and thought about the finding, she said, it made some sense to her. In 2014, dating apps were relatively new.
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How Dance Develops In Children
A new review explores how dance develops in early childhood and how studying the emergence of dance can reveal the development of auditory perception and musical memory.
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Bridging Research and Editorial Vision: A Conversation With Arturo Hernandez
Arturo Hernandez, Professor of Psychology at the University of Houston and editor for Perspectives on Psychological Science, joins Under the Cortex to reflect on the dynamic relationship between scientific discovery and scientific communication.
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When Is Forgetting Normal — And When Is It Worrisome?
Do you have trouble remembering names or where you put your keys? Neurologist Charan Ranganath, author of Why We Remember, talks about the science of memory.
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Why Singing Is Good For Your Brain
If there is a song in your soul, sing it out loud — whether in your car on your morning commute or at karaoke with friends. It’s okay if you are not the next Beyoncé. Making music — even if we aren’t especially good at it — can still be good for us. Music has the power to soothe the mind, promote brain health and bring people closer together, research has consistently shown. But even though music can get stuck in our heads or make us want to move and groove, we can find it difficult to muster up the courage to make it ourselves.
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‘A Big Win’: Dubious Statistical Results Are Becoming Less Common In Psychology
More than a decade after psychologists began to seriously wrestle with questions about the rigor and reliability of their work, there are signals that the field is improving. A recent analysis of 240,355 psychology papers reports that “fragile” statistical results—a potential marker of poor research practices or samples that are too small—decreased substantially between 2004 and 2024. It’s a “thorough and impressive piece of work,” says Mark Rubin, a psychologist at Durham University who was not involved in the study, published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science in April.
