Can Reading Be Unlearned?

Researchers have looked somewhere surprising for answers—hypnosis

Your Baby Is a Statistician

What does an 11-month-old understand about random sampling?

Why We Know So Little About High Achievers

Inquiring minds want to know—just not scientists

What Toddlers Know They Don’t Know About Plurals

Fifty years later, the Wug Test is still teaching us how children learn new word forms

Derailed By “Who’s On First”

On committing to the wrong thing

The Liberal Grammar Fanatic

Why do grammatical errors turn Jekylls into Hydes?

Psychology and the Elite College Undergraduate

The world is theirs; but are they the world?

Acting Like a Baby

Why is it so hard to hear non-native sounds?

The Psychology of Playing the Part

What makes an actor?

Much Ado About Acting

On learning lines

Magic Fingers

Do baby sign language courses really work?

What Makes Hemingway Hemingway?

On the psychology of artistic style

On Expecting Things to Fall Apart

We understand entropy surprisingly early in life

Limericks That Leave You Hanging

When we expect to hear a rhyme and don’t

Tuesdays with Siri

How to Talk Shakespeare

Headless Bear Walks Up to Woman; Awesomeness Ensues

The search for the perfect title

When Nouns Verb Oddly

Verb meanings are slipperier than noun meanings

Are Our Screams, Sighs, and Giggles Universal?

Two studies suggest yes and no

Don’t Mock the Monocle (A Webcomic)

On our unspoken preferences for ordering adjectives

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