Art Markman, PhD

Trust is important.   Without the ability to trust strangers, society would fall apart.   You have to trust that peopl...

Quite a bit of research has begun to explore influences of sleep on cognitive processes .   In adults, sleep has a hug...

When people do something wrong, there are two distinct emotions that they commonly experience:   guilt and shame.   Th...

We often assume that giving people the chance to choose what they are going to do will increase their motivation to do...

For a few decades now, educators have suggested that computers would vastly improve our ability to teach students.   T...

A subtheme in this blog has been the influence of video game play on people’s behavior.   There is an ongoing debate a...

By the time you are an adult, you know a lot about the world.   You know that dogs bark, that computers allow you to c...