From Messi to Mika Häkkinen: how top athletes can slow down time

Many top drivers report feeling like they drive in slow motion.

Steve Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Beckett University • conversation
Feb. 26, 2025 • ~7 min

How to cope with romantic rejection – a psychologist’s advice

Humans have complex psychological monitoring systems that track whether we are at risk of being pushed out of groups.

Veronica Lamarche, Senior Lecturer of Psychology, University of Essex • conversation
Feb. 13, 2025 • ~8 min

Decluttering can be stressful − a clinical psychologist explains how personal values can make it easier

Assessing how well items align with your core beliefs may make it easier to let them go.

Mary E. Dozier, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Mississippi State University • conversation
Feb. 11, 2025 • ~9 min

Psychotherapy may change memories of childhood – here’s why practitioners should warn clients

Recent research shows childhood memories of emotion towards a parent may be malleable. Should psychotherapies warn clients about this potential side effect?

Lawrence Patihis, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Portsmouth • conversation
Feb. 5, 2025 • ~6 min

Why Democrats are switching off the news – a psychologist explains

Some people avoid the news because they feel worn out by its intensity.

Geoff Beattie, Professor of Psychology, Edge Hill University • conversation
Feb. 5, 2025 • ~7 min

I’m a sports psychologist and diehard Eagles fan - here’s the behavioral science behind a Super Bowl LIX win

Elite athletes are known to be tough-minded. Research reveals openness is also a key personality trait, one that allows them to execute creative, unscripted plays.

Eric Zillmer, Professor of Neuropsychology, Drexel University • conversation
Feb. 4, 2025 • ~8 min

The weird psychology of airports

National borders, time and place all dissolve at airports, making some people very anxious while others feel liberated.

Steve Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Beckett University • conversation
Jan. 31, 2025 • ~7 min

Sexism linked to social ills for men and women, finds largest cross-cultural study of its kind

Women’s gains mean men’s gains too.

Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka, Professor and Head of the Division of Cross-Cultural and Gender Psychology, University of Gdansk • conversation
Jan. 24, 2025 • ~7 min

Emotions change our perception of time – as demonstrated on The Traitors

In moments of high emotion we lose track of time.

Ruth Ogden, Professor of the Psychology of Time, Liverpool John Moores University • conversation
Jan. 24, 2025 • ~6 min

Feeling political distress? Here are coping strategies a psychologist shares with his clients

Politics in America have become more upsetting than ever for big chunks of the population, but there are ways to cope.

Jeremy P. Shapiro, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University • conversation
Jan. 22, 2025 • ~8 min

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