For decades, psychologists and neuroscientists have propagated a dismal picture of the human mind. We are told that far from being rational, most of what we think and do is propelled by irrational ...

The human capacity to forget is not merely a failure of memory but a fundamental adaptive mechanism. Memory suppression and intentional forgetting involve the active inhibition of unwanted or ...

Susanne Jaeggi, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, joins Lisa Dent to discuss why we forget things we were just thinking about. Professor Jaeggi says it’s harder to keep track of ...

The first romance is a milestone in many people's lives, leaving a lasting impression that science and psychology strive to ...