New Research From Psychological Science
Hierarchical Encoding in Visual Working Memory: Ensemble Statistics Bias Memory for Individual Items Timothy F. Brady and George A. Alvarez More
Facial Recognition
You’ve changed somehow. Is that a new turnip?
I spent about an hour yesterday at the National Gallery of Art, mesmerized by the Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s paintings More
One Never Forgets a Face
Our ability to recognize faces is something we take for granted, but it is actually quite an extraordinary talent, considering More
A Face Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts
You stop at a shop window and wonder why someone inside is blatantly staring at you — until you realize More
Angry Faces: Research Suggests Link Between Facial Structure and Aggression
Angry words and gestures are not the only way to get a sense of how temperamental a person is. According More
Making Sense of Ambiguous Faces
We all use stereotypes every day, whether we like it or not. It’s how we sort an impossibly complex world More