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The Effortless Way to Dramatically Improve Your Memory, Backed by Science
Say you need to remember something important. Information from a meeting where taking notes wasn’t possible. A pitch you’ll make to investors. A presentation you’ll make to employees. So you take mental notes, or review written notes. You
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I Don’t Care If It’s Fake News, I Believe It
“Max” Bai talks about the research on misinformation he presented at the 2022 APS Annual Convention in Chicago.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on how people view themselves and integrate others’ feedback, similarity reasoning in children, advice from top performers, science learning, working memory distortions, memory updating, motor coordination, and perceptions of authenticity.
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The New Science of Forgetting
A baby zebrafish is just half the size of a pea. A recent look inside its transparent brain, however, offers clues to the far bigger mystery of how we remember—and how we forget. In an
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Eyewitness Error: Malleable Memories, Flawed Legal Processes, and an Opportunity to Train
First PSPI Live explores a 2021 case for testing a witness’s memory of a suspect only once.
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Past Imperfect: Exploring the Challenges—and the Promise—of Memory’s Malleability
While many researchers continue to wrestle with the extent to which our memories can be relied on, others are exploring how this malleability can be harnessed to improve well-being.