Art Markman, PhD

If you do something wrong that hurts someone else, you feel guilty.   Guilt is a valuable emotion, because it helps to...

The old joke says that you only need one psychologist to change a light bulb, but the light bulb has to want to chang...

It is tempting to think of our eyes as video cameras that take in information about the world and try to give us a rea...

The school year is about to start, and the University of Texas is about to be flooded with students.  Every year, a fe...

In any group, some people emerge as the leaders.   Those leaders have high status within the group, because others end...

Philosophers and observers of human behavior have noticed that people often make moral claims that they cannot live up...

Forgiveness can be difficult.   When someone does something wrong to you, it often takes time and effort to get beyond what they did an...