Cognitive dissonance is a psychological term that describes the discomfort you feel when your beliefs don’t line up with your actions. Or it could refer to the tension of holding two conflicting ...

Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980) is best known for his theories of cognitive development in children. Two of the cognitive processes he explored extensively were assimilation and ...

Researchers have now discovered that HAR123, a regulatory gene sequence, is an important factor in human brain development. Even though humans are closely related to chimps, the slight differences in ...

Infants who nap a lot have smaller vocabularies and poorer cognitive skills -- according to new research. Infants who nap a lot have smaller vocabularies and poorer cognitive skills -- according to ...

Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) is an evidence-based treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related conditions. CPT is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). It helps a ...

Fluoride has long been the subject of conspiracy theories. In the 1950s, some believed its presence in US tap water was a communist plot to undermine America (famously satirised in the film Dr.