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That Tip-Of-The-Tongue Feeling May Be an Illusion
Sometimes you know there’s just the right word for something, but your brain can’t find it. That frustrating feeling is called the tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) state—and for decades psychologists assumed it was caused by a partial
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The Difference Between Speaking and Thinking
Language is commonly understood as the instrument of thought. People “talk it out” and “speak their mind,” follow “trains of thought” or “streams of consciousness.” Some of the pinnacles of human creation—music, geometry, computer programming—are
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on social pain, adolescents’ political attitudes and values, disagreement and accuracy, effects of stress on voice features, learning, grief, and anxiety.
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Parents Fine-Tune Their Speech to Children’s Vocabulary Knowledge
Researchers have developed a method to experimentally evaluate how parents use what they know about their children’s language when they talk to them.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring causal inference about outcomes, preschoolers’ conversational turns, and contributors to prosocial behavior following a natural disaster.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring how we think about our interests, language and visual consciousness, and nonverbal behavior in close relationships.
