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Life Is Better Remembered in Chunks
Teaching: Lesson plans aimed at helping students understand event segmentation and its role in memory.
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles covering social integration, new insights on mental health care, memory and more.
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Could Psychotherapy Work by Changing How We Navigate Our Own Minds?
According to researchers in a 2025 study, becoming aware of unrecognized psychological and behavioral challenges is the most crucial mechanism in conversation-based psychotherapy.
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Making Memory Research Mirror Real Life
Researchers are designing studies that better represent how memory works in daily life, leading to discoveries about how to intervene when it falters.
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Time Warped: How Repetition Distorts Our Sense of Duration
Podcast: This guest’s research uncovers a surprising illusion: Repeated experiences, which are more vividly remembered, are often perceived as having occurred further in the past than they did.
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Why Memory Fails Us
Human sensory systems are almost as good as they can get, but memory is pretty fallible. We often misremember or downright can’t remember. Ours can’t hold a candle to artificial memory. But, there are plus
