Art Markman, PhD

When you sign on to be a Psychologist, you have taken on the study of a topic that is both extraordinarily complex and underappreciated. ...

Periodically, I like to look at the effects of video games on thinking.   A few months ago, I posted a blog entry on the influence of vid...

Placing something in a category and describing its properties have very different effects on the way we think about things.   In various ...

I have always scratched my head over conspiracy theories.   It is hard enough to get a group of reasonably intelligent people organized t...

The purpose of money is to provide a uniform method for valuing things.   It doesn’t matter whether I have a crisp new $1 bill in my pock...

Much of your life is spent doing routine things.  On weekdays, you have a set of actions you take out of habit to wake up, get ready to leav...