Whether it’s news notifications or work emails, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the stresses of our time every moment of every day. But what if there was something we could do to rekindle the ...

For forty years, I have studied and utilized early recollections as a personality appraisal tool in therapeutic and informal contexts. As a graduate student in the 1970’s, I was introduced to the ...

Philosopher Rowlands (The Philosopher and the Wolf) weaves together philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and personal anecdote for an expansive look at how memory shapes identity. Memories are made, ...

It is natural not to remember childhood memories. However, certain factors can affect how much of their childhood a person remembers. People usually cannot remember events that occurred before they ...

Childhood amnesia (also known as infantile amnesia) is the inability to recall the first two to three years of our lives—an absence of memory that has puzzled psychologists since the 19th century. In ...

A new developmental theory from an Iowa State researcher describes how our memory and perception of trauma can evolve over time, shifting with new experiences and as cognitive and emotional ...

There’s nothing like Christmas for mental time travel triggered by family traditions and well-worn arguments. You might also have the sort of family, like mine, which often insists on perceiving and ...