Trying to understand human behavior (a basic feature of our species, shaped by natural selection) without understanding evolutionary principles would be like trying to understand the details of a car ...

My father is a professional historian who specializes in the Founding Fathers, especially George Washington. I recall a conversation I had with him, perhaps when I was an undergraduate, when I asked ...

Writing about the past is influenced not just by the data but also by the cultural frameworks and cognitive inclinations of ...

Below is the beginning of a timeline about the history of psychology, both a history of the field as a whole and a history of the field at Bates. Four students (Helen Chyz ’14, Mary Millard ’14, Naima ...

Bloom is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto and the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University. His new book is Psych: The Story of the Human Mind ...

When adults claim to have suddenly recalled painful events from their childhood, are those memories likely to be accurate? This question is the basis of the “memory wars” that have roiled psychology ...

Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology dedicated to studying how people think. The cognitive perspective in psychology focuses on how the interactions of thinking, emotion, creativity, and ...

As educators we are well aware of the many delays in bringing theory to practice. Whether it is through delayed pedagogical recommendations in adjusting campus learning spaces, conceptual challenges ...