Art Markman, PhD

Emotional experiences clearly affect memory.   At the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy many pe...

I have been around schools my whole life—first as a student and grad student, and for the last 20+ years as a professo...

Cable TV news is filled with examples of moral outrage.   Hosts of news programs display high levels of anger at some ...

When you wander around college campuses, you see the effects of strong gender differences in preferences for majors.  ...

Stories are a central way that we pass information to people.   The beauty of stories is that they embed real cultural...

When people get nostalgic, they are living in the past.   In those moments, the past seems rosy, and often as more pos...

The ability to classify objects is crucial to thinking. When you place an object into a category, you are able to pred...