Why we procrastinate has less to do with willpower than with how flexibly our brains handle stress and discomfort - and the ...
People like to take the path of least resistance when it comes to cognitive effort -- a common assumption in cognitive psychology. Researchers have now come to a different conclusion: once people ...
Correspondence to Fionn Büttner, School of Public Health, Physiotherapy, and Sports Science, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Dublin, Ireland; fionn.cleirigh-buttner{at}ucdconnect.ie Objectives To ...
Share on Pinterest A cup of green tea or roasted green tea before undergoing a mental task could help improve performance, a new study shows. Image credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images. Roasted ...
Emma, a college sophomore, stares at her screen. Her professor just assigned an essay on Kafka’s Metamorphosis and her fingers hover immediately over ChatGPT. ‘Why struggle,’ she thinks, ‘when AI can ...
This study provides important evidence that negative affect is associated with slower cognitive processing in daily life, with findings replicated across three independent samples and supported by ...