Psychology

Your ability to remember works of art may be predictable Three actors from the film Ferris Bueller's Day off stand diagonally from each other with their arms crossed. Behind them are several paintings.

Your ability to remember works of art may be predictable

Does everyone deserve compassion? A person standing is reaching down with a hand outstretched to someone below whose hand is also outstretched. Neither faces are visible.

Does everyone deserve compassion?

Using a foreign language can reduce false memories, study shows Outline of a human head with a tangle of yellow and blue lines in the "brain." The yellow line leads outside the brain to the left and says "true" while the blue line leads to the right and reads "false."

Using a foreign language can reduce false memories, study shows

Students who study abroad are more civically engaged Man walking in city with backpack and luggage.

Students who study abroad are more civically engaged

Social media could open doors for studying memory, study finds A person holds up their phone to take a picture during a concert

Social media could open doors for studying memory, study finds

Conflict resolution more successful using a native language, research shows Two wooden figurines solving a problem using dialogue

Conflict resolution more successful using a native language, research shows

Robert Butler, scholar of hearing and auditory spatial localization, 1923-2022 Robert Butler

Robert Butler, scholar of hearing and auditory spatial localization, 1923-2022

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, pioneering psychologist and ‘father of flow,’ 1934–2021 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi stands on the campus of Claremont Graduate University

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, pioneering psychologist and ‘father of flow,’ 1934–2021

R. Darrell Bock, influential scholar of educational metrics, 1927–2021 R. Darrell Bock

R. Darrell Bock, influential scholar of educational metrics, 1927–2021

Emotion in stories gets our attention—and attention affects our memories Couple watching TV

Emotion in stories gets our attention—and attention affects our memories