A new longitudinal study suggests that overall well-being—and especially a strong sense of purpose—are important components ...

A strength of overthinkers is that they're willing to exert cognitive effort to experience better outcomes. Here's how overthinkers who are considering a major life decision can best reap the benefits ...

Memory helps us make sense of the present by retrieving past experiences based on either surface-level similarities or deeper ...

Podcast: This guest's research uncovers a surprising illusion: Repeated experiences, which are more vividly remembered, are often perceived as having occurred further in the past than they did.

Feelings of sadness are common human emotions. When more severe symptoms like lack of energy and hopelessness develop in multiple areas of a person’s life along with persistent sadness over at least ...