Stories by Julia Shaw

The take-home message is that we need to change the way police do interrogations--and do it fast

A culture that normalizes hypercritical peers is a problem for scientists who want to reach beyond academe

Eyewitness memory appears to be largely unaffected by mild or even moderate alcohol consumption

How sleep, circadian rhythms and chronotype affect your ability to remember

How to prevent the most salient feature from being the least informative

The benefits of a post-truth society

Our brains are great at creating personal versions of historical fiction

Some people are so good at remembering faces that it’s downright creepy

Two phenomena, known as decay and interference, play a role, depending on what it is we're trying to remember

Just because you're absolutely confident you remember something accurately doesn't mean it's true

Our memories of our own lives are often unreliable, so it should be no surprise that the same is true for our departed loved ones

The psychology behind why so many people are willing to ignore the experts

If you think all of your memories are real and accurate, think again

The media (and scientists) often overstate how much progress the field has actually made

Someone can tamper with your statement about an event you witnessed—and you might come to believe the altered version is what you actually saw

Sonogenetics, the future of memory hacking

Understanding commonly used, and generally discredited, psychoanalytic terms

It's such a terrifying but beautiful notion that every day you wake up with a slightly different personal past.

That's because a distracted brain is a forgetful brain

The '90s called: they want their jargon back

In case you didn't already know this, your brain on love is crazy

This list explains why he's the man I love to hate

Why it's not so hard to make an innocent person confess

The science of keeping that New Year's resolution