Déjà Vu May Feel Like a Premonition, but It’s Not
In a study on déjà vu, participants were no more likely to accurately forecast the future than if they were blindly guessing — but when they were experiencing déjà vu, they felt like they could… More
Cognitive Processes
Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science
“Why Word Frequency Matters” by C. Nathan DeWall and “Variations in Face Recognition Ability: Stable, Specific, and Substantial” by Gil Einstein and Cindi May… More
People Rationalize Policies as Soon as They Take Effect
Findings from three field studies indicate that people report more favorable opinions about policies and politicians once they become the status quo… More
Women Beat Expectations When Playing Chess Against Men
Ranked chess players’ data suggest that women playing against men perform better than expected based on official ratings… More
New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring the distinction between false memory and false belief and how percepts are unified across the left and right visual fields… More
New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring: judgment, uncertainty, and optimism; processing of object-scene relations; and orienting biases in visual attention… More