The Brain

Happiness may be one of the most common and egalitarian of human emotions, but all aren't created equal when it comes to elation.The work of Harvard’s Dan…

Can you remember what it was like for you to learn your native language? Probably not, but why is that?As humans, we begin learning to speak our native…

We may think of our memory functioning much like a movie camera does; capturing a scene and replaying it in a linear fashion. Yet, in actuality, it’s more…

If you’ve seen "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off" or ever been in a classroom, you know that school can sometimes be very boring. However, learning and coming up…

Failure is a word that carries a lot of baggage, arousing emotional responses that we’d usually rather avoid. What about success? Why does the thought of…

Being the incredibly social species that we are, we humans simply cannot avoid influencing one another when we interact. Influence is inevitable. The…

Swiss psychiatrist Jean Piaget was born in 1896, and died in 1980. His background was in biology, but he became fascinated with studying the psychological…