Cognition

Artists, novelists, actors and directors excel at tapping into “imagination” circuits

Growing up in a home filled with books enhances enhances intellectual capacity in later life, even if you don't read them all.

An interview with British clinical psychologist Paul Gilbert, founder of compassion focused therapy

A biologist-philosopher cautions against banishing from our worldview things that science cannot comprehend

Jayne Riew combines text and images to produce artistic works that are deeply psychological

We should doubt all theories and theologies that claim to solve the problem of who we really are

Picture books provide some of our earliest and most concise introductions into how and why we make decisions

Felines move their ears, heads and tails more when they hear their names compared to when they hear similar words. Jim Daley reports.

The Psychology Podcast Recap for April 2019

Cross-Check columns on consciousness, free will and other mind-related puzzles

Freshwater dolphins are evolutionary relics, and their calls give clues to the origins of cetacean communication in general. Christopher Intagliata reports.

The tiny brain of a honeybee is apparently able to calculate small numbers' addition and subtraction. Annie Sneed reports.