One year. What can you remember from one year of the Covid pandemic? Are your memories clear and complete? Or is everything a blur? Are your days blending together?
Where’s my pitchfork? Bring the tar and feathers. GameStop is a story of how people work to punish unfair bullies, even if they risk hurting themselves.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. This is the risk of leaving people unprotected from internet disinformation campaigns.
It isn’t all my fault. It isn’t your fault. The problems in the world are not completely our personal responsibilities. Recognizing this allows us to treat people with kindness.
All the witnesses agree that the police failed to announce themselves before breaking down Breonna Taylor’s door and killing her. Except for one witness. Is his report a false memory?
What comes to mind when you think about COVID-19? Statistics, news stories, political claims? Or do you think about a friend who caught the coronavirus and developed COVID?
Are you feeling quarantine fatigue? Are you ready to go back to work, out to dinner, to a movie, or to meet friends for a drink? But should you? Is it safe? How will you decide?
"Six degrees of Kevin Bacon" is a game movie fans play. It's based on classic psychology research and important for understanding the need to self-isolate. Who do you stay home for?
I want to be a good person. I want to recycle. But I worry that I'm not doing it right. I worry other people judge me every time I make a mistake with my trash. I hate recycling.
She has been wandering the halls, searching for her husband. Lost and worried. Where is he? Why did he abandon me here? This is the pain of forgetting.
A cute animal picture with a pithy saying can spread like wildfire across social media. Memes are insidious—and findings from psychology may help explain why.
Do you have the baby shark song swimming in your head? Sometimes, an awful piece of music gets stuck in your thoughts. How can you delete it from your mental playback loop?
While campaigning, Joe Biden tells a compelling story of war heroism and of awarding a soldier a medal. Unfortunately, the story appears to be false. But maybe Biden isn’t lying.
Misinformation develops a life of its own, infecting social media. But if misinformation is like a virus infecting social media, are there ways to inoculate ourselves?
Have you ever woken up a strange place that you don’t recognize? Unable to remember how you got there? That moment can help us understand what having Alzheimer’s is like.
I received three phone calls in 30 minutes. On the last two, she didn’t respond when I said I said hello, although I could hear noises. But I wasn’t worried.
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