Immense amounts of information are now accessible to people, including information that
bears on their past, present and future. An important research challenge is to determine how …

Cognitive science has been instrumental in advancing our understanding of the onset,
maintenance, and treatment of depression. Research conducted over the last 50 years …

One of the essential insights from psychological research is that people's information
processing is often biased. By now, a number of different biases have been identified and …

Introduction There are few published empirical data on the effects of COVID‐19 on mental
health, and until now, there is no large international study. Material and methods During the …

In adult life, people normally know what they are doing. This experience of controlling one's
own actions and, through them, the course of events in the outside world is called'sense of …

In this paper, we provide a perspective into the main ideas and findings emerging from the
growing literature on motivated beliefs and reasoning. This perspective emphasizes that …

This chapter offers an explanation of why our culture, and our field, has attached positive
value only to persistence and not to quitting, while in our view the ability to quit is every bit as …

We propose that depression can be viewed as an adaptation to conserve energy after the
perceived loss of an investment in a vital resource such as a relationship, group identity, or …

A comprehensive perspective on human nature by one of the undisputed masters of the
psychological sciences The final book by psychology's most eminent modern figure, Dr …

Vast amounts of personalized information are now available to individuals. A vital research
challenge is to establish how people decide what information they wish to obtain. Here, over …