Maèva Flayelle and Joël Billieux, both behavioural addiction researchers at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, say their work attempts to expand the focus from the psychology of the ...

A couple sits together on a sunny park bench. He appears to be studying the passing clouds; she’s absorbed in a novel. Some passersby might think, How sweet. Others might see them as bleak. They ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feltman. ... My guest today is Jamil Zaki, a professor of psychology at Stanford University.

The idea to study the potentially beneficial influence of mind wandering on information processing occurred to us during the COVID pandemic, when we had plenty of time to mind wander,” says Péter ...

The attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump was a massive shock that has jarred society, regardless of where one falls on the political spectrum.