Art Markman, PhD

We tend to think of conflict as the enemy of good decision making.   We dread situations that involve difficult choices...

I have written a few times about the influence of sleep on thinking.   High school students who stay up late perform ...

A lot of websites give you the chance to represent yourself with an avatar rather than a picture of yourself.   Avatars...

If you spend time watching movies or TV, you have probably know that you see a moving image on the screen, but that the...

Teams tend to do things together.   Soldiers march in step.   Athletic teams do stretches and simple drills together as...

When you do something wrong, there are two typical reactions that pull in opposite directions.   On the one hand, you ...

When children are about 3-years-old, one of the big things they need to do is to learn about the huge variety of object...