If you lie awake at night because your mind won’t stop racing, taking five minutes before bed to write out a to-do list for the next day might help you get more shuteye. In a study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, people who wrote down future tasks they wanted More
A couple of years ago, at the peak of my children’s reluctance to eat vegetables, I decided to try an experiment. When the kids arrived home from daycare one afternoon, I had bowls of colorful vegetables cut up and ready to go: crunchy red and yellow peppers, bushy little florets More
Ranked chess players’ data suggest that women playing against men perform better than expected based on official ratings More
DIGITAL assistants such as Siri and Cortana are increasingly common on phones and computers. Most are designed to give their users the impression that a humanlike intelligence lies behind the program’s friendly voice. It does not, of course. But dozens of experiments over the years have shown that people readily More
Humanlike virtual assistants may deter some people from seeking help on tasks that are supposed to measure achievement. More
A scientific review puts the claims behind brain-training games and apps to the test. More
